Modern Day Tragedy

Its tragic that a talented bugger like Heath Ledger goes toes up and that idiot turd Cory Worthington lives on!
Life's unfair.
If I wasn't eligible for jail time (ie was 16 years old), had no responsibility and my parents were away, I could throw a pretty mean party too.
What's the big deal?
There's a comment by the editor of the Site Point Tribune (an email for nerds about marketing web stuff) who fluffs on about this Corey clown's wearing of those ridiculous yellow sunnies and how its a brilliant marketing ploy.
The fact that the mainstream media is giving this gonad such attention must mean that there's no news in stock market crashes, sub prime lending blow outs or potential genocide in Kenya.
Its the kind of frenzy that gave Big Brother contestants the idea that they were somehow 'special'.
If there were a god he'd have thrown Corey under a bus and spared Heath.
Do the world and yourself a favour, visit this site and slap the unrepentant little bastard.

Microsoft The Evil Empire

I'm in the process of writing an Outlook AddIn for a FrOGTech project.
As you may or may not know, I am a staunch Microsoft dislikerer because, well, they make you pay for stuff and everything. And just when you're settled into a nice development routine, they go and release a newer, shinier version that you have to purchase, adopt and learn.

The nerve.

Don't get me started on Internet Explorer. Internet Deplorable more like.
Microsoft only like utilising standards they make up themselves and bugger the rest of the world.
That being said, I'm in the midst of writing this AddIn for Outlook and I gotta tell ya, its quite a snap to develop.
The AddIn takes a selected mail item or contact and extracts the data and throws it into a database via a webservice. Neat.
So even though they're a bunch of greedy bums, their stuff actually works!