So I haven’t blogged about BBWs in a while so I thought I’d do so shamelessly now.

Here is a rather feisty one to enjoy. Enjoy.

I finally got around to buying thse. I hope to start reading them this weekend. The fourth story arc doesn’t come out in single volume till next year and also next year they are starting a new 30 edition arc. Sweet.

Proof positive that even MS dont bother checking their layouts in IE6 anymore. Ignore the couple of dark horizontal lines – that’s me patching together the screen images in a hurry. The rest of the mess is pure IE6.

This could be interesting…

“Pichai called this out as one of the most important things Google is doing with Chrome OS. “In Chrome OS, every application is a web application,” he said, answering questions about how the platform would work. “There are no conventional desktop applications. Users don’t have to install programs, manage updates, nothing … A computer should just work.”
The next bit will be controversial in some circles, though it shouldn’t be. “All data in Chrome OS is in the cloud,” Pichai continued. “We really want it to be easy for you, [the user,] to use the machine. We want all of personal computing to work [as do web applications, where you logon and get access to the services associated with your account]. If I lose my Chrome OS machine, I should be able to go buy a new machine, log in, and within a matter of seconds, get my favorite applications, and the necessary cached data back, including personalization, my background, everything should look similar. We want it to be possible for users to share machines and feel as if the machine belongs to them.” “

All applications and info cloud-based. Makes you wonder how fast that would allow the PC to be if it is little more than a terminal. More here.

However, what happens if the Cloud isn’t available? What happens if your connection is down? Kind of sucks that your PC is then virtually useless. But it’s going to be interesting to see how it works, nonetheless.

You know, I don’t give a monkies about football, I really don’t. I just don’t get the big deal. But this made even me angry:

Here is the guy who covers for me when I am off work. At present he is here doing extra work and so I am subjected to him and his odour all day for two days a week. He has no personality whatsoever and speaks with the most nasal whine you’ve ever heard. He never had a thought he didn’t say and say and say out loud. He is the guy who gives us IT folk a bad (nerdy) name. He has so many little OCD-type ticks (including “scratching” the inside of his nostril before licking his finger!!) that I think I’m going to shoot him he twists or pulls up his pants (with his wrists!!)one more time!

But I could probably handle all of that if he’d just bathe!!!

If you Bing “new dark tower novel” my blog comes up as number one and two hits.

Tremble before me, for I am a GODDDDD!

I won’t be buying this, but I am interested to see how the cloud edition will work. The beta is so far only available for technet and msdn subscribers, with the public version coming soon. The cloud beta won’t be with us until next year.

Nice icons, though.

I was very interested when I found this page and read the following quote from SK:

“I was hooked on pain medication, I didn’t feel good, I couldn’t walk right,” King says. “I was miserable a lot of the time, and that’s not conducive to either clear thought or good work….In essence, what I put out there for sale was a first draft. People wanted the story,” King explains. “The story was happening over a long period of time, and when it got to the last three books, I just said, ‘I’ve gotta sit down and write these as one thing,’ which is basically what I did. For a year and a half, I didn’t do anything but write Dark Tower books, which is why, when some lady called for an interview from the Los Angeles Times, I said I’m probably gonna be retire. At that point, I felt like retiring! I was so tired of that constant, fantasy world.”

That’s pretty interesting. I wonder how much revising we are talking about. Obviously he’ll have to fix the inconsistencies that cropped up when he decided to change the whole whose-who of Walter/Flagg/Man In Back. But will actually plot points get changed or removed? (Inclusion of Stephen King as a Character, I’m looking at you!!)

Interesting times ahead, Tower-wise.

SCORRREE!!!!!! Skim forward to about 3 minutes! It’s set between Wizard and Wolves. It’ll probably suck but I can’t wait anyway!