Quote: "roughly equivalent to wandering around in a fire wearing matches"

I came across a great quote today. It was said by Google’s Adam Bosworth in an article where is talks about AJAX (which he initially developed at Microsoft). I love the last quote I have posted below.

“Back in ‘96-’97, me and a group of people, many of whom are here at Google, helped build stuff that these days is called AJAX,” Bosworth said. “We sat down and took a hard look at what was going to happen with the Internet and we concluded, in the face of unyielding opposition and animosity from virtually every senior person at Microsoft, that the thick client was on its way out and it was going to be replaced by browser-based apps.

“Saying this at Microsoft back in ‘96 was roughly equivalent to wandering around in a fire wearing matches,” he said.

Movie: The Punisher

Da Punisher was on TV last night. Interesting movie. Definitely a movie that I am glad I did not pay to watch at a theater, but not one that I was disappointed at spending the time to watch.

It will be interesting to see what the sequel will be about.

Crappy Software: iTunes

With the amount of brain and programming power that Apple has, you would think that iTunes would be pretty much glitch free and not have gaping chasms of crappiness.

Crappy part of iTunes #1: The fact that they have to have a menu option of View -> Show Duplicates

Maybe the program should be smart enough NOT to CAUSE duplicates. Why am I bitching? Because the duplcicates I have were not caused by duplicate files — they were caused by me having the damn program rescan my mp3 folder because I added new files to it. Why did I do that? See “Crappy part of iTunes #2″ below.

Crappy part of iTunes #2: The fact that the program, even in its current incarnation, will NOT auto update its music list when you manually add (e.g: copy files) into your music folder.

The fact that there are so many utilities out there to fill the void would sure indicate to me that there is an issue that should be added to the itunes functionaility.

Anyways, now I get to manually go through and delete the 801 duplicates that just appeared in my itunes music list.

POS!!!!!

Movie: The Day After

The movie “The Day After” was on the SciFi channel. I remember watching that movie when it first came out in 1983. I was 10 and I have to say the movie freaked me out at that time — it is probably was not something I should have seen at that time. Unfortunately, time will tell whether a nuclear attack or accident of that scale will occur in the USA in our future. After 9/11 and the current season of “24,” it isn’t like it is not possible.

News: Losers of the Year

Well, 2007 just started and isn’t even 1 month complete, but it looks like we already have the winner for Losers of the Year.

First, here are their pictures:

Why are they losers of the year? Here is a quick synopsis. First, their info:

Top picture – Lonnie Stiffler, 61
Middle picture – Robert James Snow, 43
Bottom picture – Neil H. Rodreick II, 29

Second, Neil H. Rodreick was telling everyone he was 12. Yes, 12. And, he was living with Lonnie and Robert.

Third, he was enrolling himself in schools as a 7th grader.

Fourth, three quotes to conclude this and summarize what this is all about:

“A convicted sex offender attended at least two Arizona middle schools, sat through seventh-grade courses and turned in homework as he moved around the state pretending to be 12 years old, officials say.”

“The sheriff’s office there said Rodreick conned two men he was living with and having sex with into believing he was a young boy.”

“Robert James Snow was ‘very upset’ to learn his live-in sex partner was an adult.”

TV: 24 and the Everlasting Cell-Phone Battery

The final 2 hours of the 24 season premier is going on currently. Pretty riveting!

However, as I commented last year, Jack Baur apparently still has the cell-phone battery we all desire – the battery that never seems to die (unlike the folks that double cross Jack). I mean, this dude can talk and talk and talk and talk… for at least 24 hours without ever needing to charge it. Darn government agencies get the best stuff!

That battery must be like the Everlasting Gob-Stopper.

Movie: Napoleon Dynamite

It seems it takes me 3 tries to get through movies lately. I forced myself to sit down and watch Napoleon Dynamite today. I had been lent the DVD a couple years ago and turned it off after about 5 minutes into the movie. I just could not get through it.

I tried again a few weeks later and ended up turning it off again.

Today it was on Comedy Central so I watched it… And, I made it through the movie!

I guess the main reason I was able to get through it this time is that I have heard so many sound bytes from it that it was fun trying to see what parts of the movie they came from.

Entertainment: Pharmacist for Michael Jackson is the dumbest business owner

Michael Jackson’s pharmacist that he had when he was here in the USA has filed a lawsuit against Michael demanding payment for over $120k that he is owed for filled perscriptions.

This guy has got to be one of the dumbest business owners I’ve ever come across.

(1) He says they had a VERBAL agreement that Jacko would pay him. Verbal agreement? Why even bother filing the lawsuit? Moron.

(2) He let the debt get to $120k. Personally, I would have started to demand payment at $119k…

Sports: David Beckham

Okay, we all know David Bekham is going to be playing football here in the USA. And come on, do they really need to type all those words about it? All the stories I have read go on and on and on. All they had to say was this:

“$1 million a week over five years.”

Short, concise, and to the point. Enough said.

Misc: Famous Relatives

One of my cousins was featured in a Today Show clip on 1/09/07 regarding Google being named the #1 company to work for for 2006.

Here is the clip:

I have famous relatives!

She is the one near the end that says she has more fun at work than with her family. She has been disowned. Haha!