Written by Raquel on September 12th, 2008
Reported on slashdot:
“Fresh from its ad featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld eating churros and discussing shoes, Microsoft has introduced a new advertisement in which the aging former CEO and comedian take up residence with a family, causing infighting and malicious plots by the family members. Although the ad does not mention Microsoft’s operating system directly, it does mirror the real world experience of the company’s products — appearing where not wanted, hard to remove, causing administration headaches, and finally being forced out in hopes of getting one’s living space back.”
What the hell is Microsoft trying to do? They are not sending any good message at all.
The first ad only works for those people who can see the subtlety (and those are more likely to be using Macs anyways). This second one is utter rubbish in my book. The poster above says it all.
Come on Bill if you wanna have clicky ads - dump Seinfeld!
Advert 1
Advert 2
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Written by Raquel on September 12th, 2008
This is a cool story.
They are offering a course in JEDI! I hope the examiner has a strong mind (unsuspecting to Jedi mind tricks)!
LINK
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Written by Raquel on August 25th, 2008
I have been following Intels new product line with interest and finally I have seen the designers webcast. It looks like Nehalem will be a beast for performance with its new memory controller on chip and other enchancements.
Anandtech have managed to perform a basic review on the new architecture with samples. Read up on this here.
How will this affect the Mac lineup? Who knows - I for one am not a tradtional Mac Rumor-monger, butI will say that interesting times are ahead.
As for AMD? well they really need to pull there engineering socks up if they are to remain competetive in the comming years.
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Written by Raquel on August 9th, 2008
Well I finally found the time to resize the wedding photos for my Brothers wedding in Siena, Italy.
Photos
There are a lot of pics and the ones I have put up are in their original form (no cropping or adjustments).
The wedding was fantastic. They even played the Godfather love theme at the reception and with my brothers and cousins in their suits it felt totally authentic.
Heres to Sophie and Taher - many years of happy times ahead.. I love you guys 
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Written by Raquel on August 7th, 2008
Well I finally made the change and have a Micro$oft free system. Open office org beta 3 is happily working on all my systems. I have switched to Thunderbird (which wasnt as easy as it should have been thanks to the esoteric M$ formatted mailboxes that took a few hours to properly migrate).
Its a good feeling using open source software. I think that Open Office is now mature enough to be a direct replacement for the M$ Office suite.
On another note I have also got Ubuntu running happily on the Mac Book air. The Wifi was the only headache here, but once that was done its all good. I am using Beryl for a window managerand it performs well on the intergrated X3100 chipset.
Download Open Office org beta here
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