I don’t know who did it, but one of the cats managed to open 29 windows of Help and Support on my computer while I was away (F1 perhaps?). Even more troubling was that the responsible cat tried to configure Windows Outlook too (I just use webmail). However, Outlook proved to be too difficult to use, so no urgent help emails were sent out. I swear I don’t mistreat the cats, your honor!
Perhaps it is time to invest in some new hardware and software…
Sydney never had much interest in catnip and it didn’t look like Toby would be much different. Bunky had bought Toby one of those simple little burlap sacks filled with catnip, and Toby played with it regularly, but not in any way that was different from his normal toys. As the sack was getting a little gross looking, we recently replaced the sack with a new sack. Just a few days later, however, Bunky was astonished to find that the sack had been shredded open and the catnip was all over the carpet. I guess that must have been an especially good crop!
I’m a little late to this story, but wow this incident with Hu Ziwei was really intense! Apparently at a CCTV event to announce the new Olympics sports channel, Hu Ziwei got on stage and let the world know that her famous husband was cheating on her. Ah, the Olympics… where you just never know who is cheating.
Hu continued, citing the words of an unnamed French diplomat, saying: “Until China is able to start exporting its values, it won’t be able to become a great power. For us to appear so prim and proper, yet Zhang Bin can’t even be brought to face his own - he won’t even face his hurt wife. I think China, as a - to succeed as a great power - don’t any of you have a conscience at all?” The men in suits approached yet again attempting to remove her, but the diminutive lady was having none of it. “You let me go,” she exclaimed, pulling herself free. “We’re so far from being a great country.”
Since censorship in the US is more subtle, most of you can check out the video and another telling of the tale here. She picked the right venue, as the muscle was forced to deal with her in a non-aggressive manner (instead of tackling her or shocking her with a taser). One can only imagine the TV producer’s mouth dropping in shock and then opening back up again to start ranting and raving. The image that comes to my mind is Aragorn at the battle of Helm’s Deep shouting frantically to Legolas to take out the Uruk-hai with the explosives.
This message of shame was brought to you by the Olympics and Burberry.
I’ve always admired Apple’s hardware, even if I think their software is overrated and their PR is infuriating. I found Steve Jobs’ introduction of the MacBook Air rather interesting. Naturally the Air does not have that much available disk space, and there are other tradeoffs. It would not be unusual, however, for this to change in a year or two, but Jobs had an unusual quote:
Responding to a question about the growing array of media, including digital photographs, movies and music, that now swell most users’ hard drives, Mr. Jobs said, “Maybe this isn’t the computer for you.”
WTF?! That goes completely against the whole “My Apple can’t play any new games and has to emulate Windows to run most software, but at least I have iLife” marketing strategy that you usually see coming from Apple. Couldn’t he have just pointed out that people can store media in an external drive? I mean, he pointed out that people can use an external CD/DVD, so it wouldn’t be that odd.
Also, I hate the iTunes software (at least the Windows version).
Pets and Plants | Kabitzin 1/17/2008 | 
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