Farewell, GeoCities
Published April 27, 2009
The above image may not mean anything to many people, but for some of us, knowing that GeoCities will be closed down by the end of the year brings a tear to the eye.
I remember discovering GeoCities in 1996, while searching on Altavista (no Google yet!) for a free place to host internet webpages.
I had my “site” up later that night, a huge “Work in Progress” animated gif on a blank background, with “Fulvio’s Website” written on top of it.
I don’t even remember what happened to that page, maybe it is still there somewhere, saved on some dusty hard drive on their storage servers. Who knows.
Farewell, GeoCities, you will be missed.
Windows 7 Starter Edition
Published April 21, 2009Ok, it is official, Microsoft has finally gone nuts.
There are rumors that the Starter Edition of the upcoming Microsoft 7 will only support THREE applications at once.
That’s right, once you try opening a fourth application the following popup will appear:
Now, how wonderful is this? To make things even better, I have some hints for uncle Ballmer to make this release even more successful:
- Limit the number of simultaneous colors on screen to 4096 (Ahhh, the good old Amiga 500 times)
- No more than 10 mouse clicks per minute
- Maximum 2 hours of continuous usage, then the computer switches itself off for 30 minutes (without warning of course)
- No more than 1 USB device connected at any given time
- Only mono audio output trough speakers
- All files saved from installed programs self-destruct after 24 hours
And the list could go on…
Avvoltoi
Published April 7, 2009
Italian TG1 (07/04/09 ed. 13:30) proudly talks about the audience share record they registered during the earthquake in Abruzzo.
Brutti sciacalli di merda. (Sorry, but I had to say this in italian.)