… but if it works, all those people who can’t bear the thought of clicking on a link that will take them outside of MySpace, and who complain they never know what I’m up to, should be able to read the same material I post at Velcro City. Fingers crossed, eh?

[edit - well, that plainly didn't work. On the plus side, it didn't kill my Wordpress install either, which was always a possible risk with a two year old unsupported plugin. Nothing ventured, and all that.]

Well, just to prove that Scalzi doesn’t have the monopoly on nice sunsets (even if he does have a far better camera):

Continue reading “Sunsets, plus the unexpected consequences of 1337-speak and search engines”

Think MySpace promotes a uniformity of ‘culture’ among its users? Yeah, me too. So, like me, you’ll probably love this picture that I found floating around teh intarwebs:

A million bad haircuts flick sideways in rage at my wrongness…I guess I, like, totally suck and stuff, and am probably ghey. Think I’ll go listen to Fallout Boy; no-one understands me, anyway.

Billy Gates and his troupe of computer-persons have a new project in the offing; they’re developing software to help illiterate Indian women find work. [Beware, this link has a lengthy but skippable intro-ad that even faithful Firefox won't squash.] Continue reading “Microsoft helps the illiterate find employment”