Time to rant a bit about a "new technological advantage" I saw the other day.

I just got my BluRay player hooked up to the internet, so I can marvel at the genius of all the technologies now available for me.
Sure it is fun to watch YouTube videos on the BluRay/TV without having to hook up a computer - but well, this isn't about that....

I popped in some disc I just bought and there was a notice for some kind of "chat" system.
Interested to see what benefits I could take advantage off now that my player was finally hooked up, I navigated over with my remote.

Well - in essence it was just a basic chat system, which would place a big chat box in the side of the screen and I could then invite my friends to "watch the movie" with me and "chat with them" while doing it ..... all from the comfort of each our own couch.
Now that is stupid enough to begin with - if I want to watch movies with friends, I - you know - visit them, and if we watch movies, I sure as heck would not want a chat box taking up the screen.

But that was not what struck me .... one method of chatting was using the remote and the keys like on phones, but the alternative was using a computer to type on, which of course also needs to be online.
But if you have a computer, hooked up to the internet, and you can use to chat on - why on earth would you then chat via a BluRay movie system?

Isn't that what you would use a - you know - chat software on your computer for? Wouldn't it be much better to just use your usual IM client and chat on the computer, if you have a computer anyway? Seriously - How irrelevant can one technology be.....

(And yes, I understand the irony in me complaining about such technology after hooking my BluRay player up to the net)

As anybody who doesn’t live in caves have discovered we’re currently in a state of global financial crisis.
And for those of us who follow the stock development in this climate, it can be quite depressing to view the stock quotes going down, down and a bit more down.
So I decided to make a little morale booster for myself today, which means that now whenever I visit the stock quotes on http://borsen.dk/invester/kursinformation (the main place I get my stock quotes from), then instead of seeing this depressing sight

I now see this much more positive view :)

The functionality is made with Greasemonkey for FireFox, with which you can make some clever and …. *ahem*…. not so clever, functionality.
Basically – all the script does is change the red numbers to green (css class) and remove the negative sign.

Pointless perhaps, but well – we can’t be serious all the time either. That’d be dull.

I've apparently been out of the loop with many things lately, so I only just now saw the Vista "internal sales promo" video and dang - that is fun satire, so I just had to share it here as well. (gotta promote that thing called self-humor and satire; it is missing almost everywhere these days in my opinion and far too many takes themselves or their opinions/ideas far too serious)

Some time ago I got this funny little error message from my SE smartphone software to my m600i (which have stopped being able to sync with Outlook at work *grrr* annoying).

Helpful. I think I'll choose yes, there is an Error in configuration.

Just had to share this fun video of Bill Gates and his last day at Microsoft.
Like or dislike Microsoft - the company stands for some great achievements in software, and it is good to see that a person such as BG actually have a great sense of humor.

Enjoy. 

Just had to share this funny video: