Vista nominated for prestigious award....um...well..."an" award

Looks like Microsoft Vista is the BOMB! Well, at least some sort of bomb. Last night Windows Vista won the 2009 Fiasco Award. For those of you not familiar with the Fiasco Awards this is a quote from their website:

The aim of the Fiasco Awards is rewarding the best projects in the ICT field that have ended up as a FIASCO.

Out of the 6,403 folks that voted a resounding 5,222 voted for Vista. Quite a fan base Microsoft has built there with there less than stellar operating system. Interestingly enough, I have had friends that have been very happy with Vista. Well, at least until they try to install a piece of hardware.

I think the biggest mistake Microsoft made was not necessarily with the operating system itself, but by pretending as if nothing was wrong for so long. Hey Microsoft, spending millions of dollars on an ad campaign with Jerry Seinfeld isn't going to fix the fact that there are lots of people really pissed at you right now, because they are completely frustrated with their operating system. Can anybody over at Microsoft even spell crisis communication? I would venture to say no.

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Ricardo Montalban dies at 88

Can you believe it? NO mention in the entire AP article of his stellar performance as Kahn in the Star Trek "Wrath of Kahn" movie. Geez these AP folks are out of touch. Not to mention the fact that in that movie he sported one of the greatest mullets of all time.

Rest in peace Mr. Montalban

News from The Associated Press

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Google Reader for Beginners

I have been asked quite a bit about how to use Google Reader for the reading of RSS feeds. It is what I use to keep up to date with all of my news sources. Luckily Google created a video with a short tutorial on how to use Google Reader. Enjoy.

Official Google Reader Blog: Google Reader for Beginners

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CNN sells t-shirts with headlines on them

In an interesting twist of news meeting fashion, CNN has begun to sell t-shirts with headlines on them. If you go to their site and look at some of the headlines you will notice there are small t-shirt icons next to them. If you click on one of those icons you will arrive at a page (pictured at right) where you can buy a t-shirt with that headline on it. It is an interesting idea. I wonder if it will catch on.

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