A few hours ago xo directed me to this forum thread on Channel 9. Honestly, at the first glance this seemed to me like some sort of an elaborate joke, but as it turned out, it very much isn’t! As you can read here, apparently yesterday at D7 Steve Balmer announced the new MS search engine called…. well yes, it’s actually called “Bing” =)) And here is the new Bing webpage, not a joke! Now of course there’s no talk of other Live services being rebranded as of yet, but I can see how the starter of that C9 thread could have came to this conclusion. If one of the very main features of “Live” is going to be rebranded, what are the chances that the rest of them will be too? Specially since they’ve already announce “Bing Maps” too, which is the new name for MS’s Virtual Earth.
And now try to imagine the verbal disaster that this would entail. For instance, if WLM is going to be called Bing Messenger, would you really feel like telling someone to “Bing” you? =)) And even if it is just the search engine…. “let me Bing that for you”!! =D Can somebody tell me, how in the universe MS managed to come up with a name as ridiculous as this?? It almost looks like a very desperate attempt at being hip! Plus, I read on another C9 thread that Bing actually means “disease” in Chinese Mandarine!! Way to choose a proper name Microsoft!
Me and a friend called xo [aka. B] recently decided to use cartoons as the medium to communicate our thoughts on certain Twine related issues. Below is the result. I know that a lot of people loved them, but certainly not everyone. =P It appears as though some took it pretty hard. Unfortunately.
Ok well… for some reason pretty much everyone that I know, either has a cold right now or had a cold in the past couple of weeks. So I guess I better share this little magical anti-cold recipe of mine with all of you! Of course the reason I made this video was that a friend of mine got it COMPLETELY wrong in his video. =P So I just had to correct that. Here it is:
And here’s the one gone wrong, just for the fun of it! 😉
Below is the “Cuss-O-Meter” result for my weblog. =) Apparently I’m not doing that much cussin’ around after all. I imagined, considering all that’s been going on recently with BlueHost and Rogers and all those other monster companies that I hate with passion, my cussin’ level would be somewhat higher than this. Ah well. I guess I should work on it!
Today I finally found the time to get rid of the old messy ShoutBox, that had became full of junk thanks to the spam bots, and due to it’s old PHPsyntax couldn’t work out with Fast CGI [which my beloved host recently offers]. As you may have already noticed, now I have a ShoutNox instead. Neat and clean and spam proof, thanks to it’s creator the great Genox. =D Try it out if you like!
On another happy note, today’s edition of Garfield is definitely one of the cutest ones I’ve seen so far. =) Here it is:
Hey, I'm Aasemoon, and this is my blog which has been around since 1998. Childhood toy project that ended up growing up with me.
You can reach me here:
aasemoon.blue
Zorbas is my kitten. You can see some pictures of him below. =)
