If you try going to “www.thedailyshow.com”:http://www.thedailyshow.com you get redirected to a page on Comedy Central’s site, which is perfectly fine, since The Daily Show appears on Comedy Central. The stupid thing is that it redirects you to their home page, not their Daily Show with John Stewart page.
Well its good to see that having the MSN searchbot visit my page more than anyone or anything else (over 100 hits a day on average) is good for something.
I am the top search result for social networking for brand whores.
I just received a little novelty gadget called 20 Q (aka 20 Questions Handheld Game
Learn more on “Cool Tools”:http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000725.php
Yeeeeee-fuckin-ha!
MercuryNews.com | 05/16/2005 | Fox saves `Arrested Development’
Arrested Development is one of just a few shows I seek to watch, and when it kept getting pre-empted last season for various programming stunts, I thought it was going to go the way of past favorites like Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks that received similar treatment on their way to cancellation.
And so, it was a pleasant suprise to see they’d been picked up for a full third season.
I’m so happy, I might even watch some of the commercials.
I’ve been running the Microsoft AntiSpyware beta on this machine for a few days now. Shortly after installing it, I noticed a notification window fly from the bottom of my screen, up the side and off the top. I thought it was weird, but explorer was behaving strangely anyway, so I didn’t think to much of it.
Until today. Today I wrote a little cmd file that will pause for 4 minutes and then play a chime to use as a countdown timer to keep my on task. Problem was, the script wouldn’t run. Instead an antispyware notification would fly over the side of my screen, too quickly to do anything about it.
I looked around for any reports of similar behavior in Microsoft’s support site, and via google and found nothing. My first thought was that it was a preverse revenge tactic by some piece of malware, but that seemed unlikely, since I practice safe net hygene and haven’t been infected by anything in years, even when I’ve not been running anti-virus software.
Then I had a bright idea. I moved my taskbar from the right of the screen, where I like it, back to the default position at the bottom. Voila!
Under default conditions, the notification display slides up and stops above the horizontal taskbar. However, because my taskbar is on the right and stretches the full height of the screen, there is no way to get clear, so the notification flys away.
I guess I can see why its still in Beta.
*Update:* They finally fixed it!
I rarely look beyond the front page at “Slashdot”:http://slashdot.org these days because any insigtful community commentary is usually lost among the thought-free braying of anti-Microsoft zealots. A couple times a week though, I’ll look beyond the front page, and if I manage to find an insightful or informed post, I might even click on the author and read anything else they’ve posted recently.
Last night I was reading a thread about apple starting to distribute video via the iTunes music store when I came across a poster who goes byAs Seen On TV. He was making some well considered and well informed points about Apple’s place in the content business, and he was using the royal “we” when representing Apple’s position.
He’s clearly an Apple employee, and people are “already speculating”:http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148958&cid=12485560 about who he is (assuming, no doubt incorrectly, that he is near the top of the hierarchy.)