paidcontent has the scoop on that thing falling apart. If it looks like a brick, weighs the same as a brick…maybe it’s a brick. The PS3 soon to follow.

I’m not a fanboy, I’m a big fan of Microsoft. But when something is doomed to fail despite the marketing hubris and mindless press releases and media coverage, you can’t just but feel the glee as it all comes around and minds meet reality.

It’s not an emote. It’s not a command, it’s nothing other than that other person changing their away message.

Okay first of all, I know I’m a bit of a moron. I’m posting this so that the next person will find it right away. I almost made a complete fool of myself by posting this as a question in Something Awful with the promise of a free account upgrade. Anyways, if you ever see this light gray, text in Google Talk:

It’s the other guy/girl changing their away message.

I have ever encountered. It is written terribly, there are tons of spelling mistakes in the example code.

The official list of corrections names only seven errors, but I have found that many in just one example. Every chapter is populated with them. Some of them are just really sloppy like extra quotes in strings and who knows what. If you type the code in examples as is, often it wont compile. I have spent hours debugging code in the book. The CD comes with example code (first of all, it doesn’t even install to where the book says it will install), but that code is the finished code, and yes it works, but you don’t get the step by step from it.

It’s just very poorly done, and the writer should really never write another programming book again. Had I been smart and read it got on Amazon.com, maybe I would have bought a Wrox book instead.

I don’t generally use IE, but I opened it for some reason, oh to do go to a microsoft site and this is what it looked like after I installed windows, Google Pack, Yahoo Messenger, and Windows Messenger Live:

, has a new feature. At least I think it’s new: forward and next buttons. With it you can create a mighty powerful browsing experience. The thing I’ve always loved about Google’s toolbar is how you can seamlessly integrate it with the rest of the browser’s customization. You don’t need to use the extra horizontal bar, you can turn it off and the drag the buttons to a bar you already have open, and thus save valuable vertical screen space:

And now with the ‘forward and next button’ along with the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button you can find the results you want from search without having to stare at line after line of mind-numbing plain text results.
Here’s my secret:
Customize the Google Tool bar so that you have the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ and the ‘forward and next’ buttons visible. Click a term search such as ‘‘ in the search box. First, this important, click the regular ol’ Google button (the G). Don’t look at the results, now click ‘I’m feeling lucky’, now just click forward and next to browse the different search results! If you searched for ‘Color Tool’ you’ll come to my Color Tool with just a few clicks of the ‘next’ button! Note, you have to click that G first for some reason, or else it wont work.

Opened up my email this morning and got one from Microsoft. They have a new service they want people to try out, Office Live. Looks like Microsoft is giving away free domain names with their office live beta trials! Did they do this intentionally? You need a product key for it, a quick internet search has told me. Better get in on it while you can! Too bad I’m on Linux. No free domains for me. I only get a free operating system.