March 2008 Archives

So you read my previous post about 60% of the Photoshop users being theives and it has really gotten to you.  No longer do you want to be like everyone else.  No longer do you want to be morally unbound.  Or maybe you just don't have a need for all the fancy pieces of the full Photoshop app?  WTF is a layer, anyway?

Well, Adobe has a solution:

A completely FREE online, scaled down, version of Photoshop that allows you to do anything the normal person may need to do: Crop, resize, remove red eye, and more!  Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that Adobe will give you 2gb of space to host your photos, too?!

Check out Photoshop Express here https://www.photoshop.com/express/

According to a survey conducted by Epic Edits.

Really, this isn't suprising, as the most popular non-open-source photo editing software STARTS at $650.

Should these Pirates be made to walk the plank?  You decide.

Read more at epicedits.com

I first Stumbled Upon the flash game below probably three years or so ago and it was something that immediately started to occupy more of my time than it should. The game is simple, click on any one of the arcs on the board, and send it off spinning. While it spins around it sets off the other arcs spinning. Creating, if you're lucky, a major chain reaction.

If I remember correctly, it was hosted on some .fr domain, and wasn't backed by any sort of explanation or website. There was no title, and the flash you see below was all that was presented. Because of this, and because of the addictive nature of the game, it was so dubbed "Crack" by myself and a friend. It was played often for a while, then one day I either formatted my hard drive, or forgot about it.. both happen quite often in my life.

Well, the other day I was browsing around the Internet, and what did I come across? Crack. Named the "Chain Reaction Game" on the site I found it at.

I have no knowledge of the original author of the game, but I take no credit for any of it, and all credit goes to the original programming.

Found this floating around MySpace recently...

A teacher noticed that a little boy at the back of the class was squirming around, scratching his crotch, and not paying attention.

She went back to find out what was going on.

He was quite embarrassed and whispered that he had just recently been circumcised and he was quite itchy.

The teacher told him to go down to the principal's office. The principal told him to telephone his mother and ask her what he should do about it. He did ask he was told and returned to his class.

Suddenly, there was a commotion at the back of the room.

She went back to investigate only to find him sitting at his desk with his pecker hanging out.

"I thought I told you to call your mom!" she said.

"I did," he said, "And she told me that if I could stick it out till noon, she'd come and pick me up from school."

Ripped From a Forwarded Email...

Today while at work, I was going through a few boxes left behind by a not-so-successful manager who ended his employement with us about two and a half years ago. There wasn't much in these boxes really; out of date computing magazines, printed manuals for software we use here that were versions behind, an old Linux book which covered Slackware v2, and probably the most useful things: a few steno pads that only had a few pages used out of them.

Out of all this garbage did come one gem:

A book published in 1988 by a man (I'm assuming) named Richard Hull, entitled: "Microcomputer Administration - How to Plan for Organize and Control Microcomputers in Your Company"

(For those of you who find yourself reading the title over to yourself because it doesn't sound right, the lack of punctuation is the way it's printed throughout the book.)

The book covers many interesting points of pre-1990s computing, but the piece I wanted to show you today is a Microcomputer Mainenance Checklist. Enjoy!