Here is an article about gmail. It's a pretty boring article. Read the last paragraph.
Why does it take 40 minutes to deliver Sushi, but only 30 minutes for Pizza?
It's not like the cook Sushi.
On a side note, my Sushi intake has increased massively since moving to Vancouver, yet another reason to like living here!
I don't get it. Are people now days stupider than say 30 years ago? Take this case for example; a story about John aged 15 who made legal history by becoming the first person to admit the offence of incitement to murder themselves.
I could add some witty commentary about how stupid those kids are, but I'll leave that to the reader's imagination.
I do know that the blame that the internet will get for this is unjustified, but then if you followed popular belief, I should be a mass-murderer or at least suicide prone, since I listen to heavy metal, I played AD&D, I play computer games, I watch the Simpsons, and I use the internet!
*edit* I should note that yes, the guy that stabbed John is more of an idiot.
Just wanted to point out an interesting thing I stumbled on. Not sure what the issue is, maybe stuff has changed since, or maybe it's the 3rd result (jewwatch.com), but anyway since I'm a jew, I found this interesting, and thought others might.
You gotta feel for Microsoft sometimes. They have the most successful products out there, bar none, and the reason is that they are the best out there. Why is that a problem, well when your programs are used by everyone, obviously the bugs are going to be found, and flaunted.
Of course when I say Microsoft make the best applications, it's a relative thing. How do you define best? I mean if you are a Linux freak the automatically the Microsoft Logo reduces the quality of an application, but that's just fanboism which is silly.
See in the end Microsoft makes the most accessible applications. My mother can use them, as can my parents-in-law. I shudder at the idea of any of them trying to compile their own kernel to upgrade their desktop environment.
Hell, I consider myself to be a power user. I really do. But even I find Linux an extremely user unfriendly environment to work it. You see the irony is that Linux fanbois spend ungodly amounts of effort to make their applications act like Microsoft apps, but all they manage to do is to make extremely buggy applications. Maybe they don't have the same security holes as Microsoft Products (and maybe they do, they just aren't found or flaunted), but they crash, core dump, leak memory, and generally don't do what they are meant to do. Windows XP does none of the above. I haven't had Windows crash on me in years. I commonly have uptimes of weeks without a reboot, and on the rare occasion when I do need to reboot, it tends to be drivers (God nVidia and ATi are bad at writing drivers) that are the fault, not Microsoft.
But I guess in the end its cool (well as cool as you can get when you are discussing nerd issues) to hate Microsoft. But then I work at EA, and I know how cool it was to hate EA before I started here, I guess if someone is successful, it's cool to hate them.
I really like the author of The ArcterJournal, he has cool links about photography, but I guess on the issue of Microsoft he and I will have to agree to disagree.
Well, I just finished watching the last ever Angel, and I have to say I'm disappointed. Not at the story, which I won't go into because I know people in some places (The UK mainly) won't get to see it for a while, but because the ending didn't feel like an ending at all.
A lot of shows have ended this year (Well 3 'big' ones. Friends; Angel and Frasier). So far the ends are far from stellar. Buffy the vampire slayer had a great ending, hell even the Bob Newhart show had a great ending. Too bad current shows suck at it.
I don't have a pont to this, I just wanted to vent my frustrations.