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Is Microsoft living in the past?

2007-10-30

A letter from Microsoft arrived today, kindly reminding me that my “Open License”
of Visual Studio/MSDN Professional (or whatever its current name is) will expire soon. On page 2, it says (translation and underline by me):

“Upgrade assurance of the licenses: With Open Value, thanks to Software Assurance, you secure for you already today future product versions like those coming in 2006: Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft “Office 12”.
[…]
Extended Software Assurance Services: starting March 2006, you have also available…”

Maybe someone at Microsoft should occasionally read through these standard texts…

Oh, and their 01805 phone number costs no longer 12, but 14 cents – when will the first official warning letter arrive? :tongue:

Make your Q key blue!

2007-10-23

Quelle, one of the big German mail-order companies, included in their latest ad letter two stickers for the Q key – in nice metallic blue, with a little violet touch depending on the light source (and not easy to photograph correctly):

Quelle Q sticker (1)Quelle Q sticker (2)

(Translation: “Free stickers for your world of advantages.”)

With the background that if you press the Q key on quelle.de, you get a special offer page (if you’re logged in) – currently a Halloween special, a travel raffle and a few highlighted, partly reduced classes of goods.

Nice idea, but would anyone really put them on her/his keyboard? I doubt that…

(Should I ask Quelle if they have stickers for the other 104 keys? ;) At least then it would have a consistent look…)

For Internet Explorer haters…

2007-10-22

…who can stitch well enough (not me), an IE voodoo doll would be nice:

IE voodoo doll

» Tutorial at ChiBits (many photos – including the above one)

Smilie by GreenSmilies.com But watch out that you don’t prick yourself and spill more blood than what is currently was dripping from my blog header during Halloween, which looked like that:

Halloween screenshot

(via H725.de via Blogfever)

Moan and Save 4 Cents

2007-10-19

Just found on the Blogwiese (German) where you can listen to an erotic (and somewhat unintentionally(?) funny) moaning of the current date (in German), by a woman or a man (if you want your IP address in English, see here) – and also found this ad for a different internet provider:

Save 4 cents

Ad on a web page saying “You are surfing via… this costs you at least 19.99€ per month. You could save with… for only 19.95€ up to 0.04€”. Note the enormous saving potential and the strange comparison between at least 19,99€ and saving up to 4 Cent…


Fiery Pope!

2007-10-17

Did good old Karol really appear in a bonfire during a ceremony on his death’s second anniversary (already this April) – and if so, what does he want to tell us with this purgatorial or hellfire look?


(Image from the Daily Mail – see there for larger version)

Or is it a dancing John Travolta? Seemed to me, too…

Was it manipulated (which the photographer apparently denies strictly)? Or is it simply anything you want to interpret into it (see pareidolia)? I’m favoring the latter…

(via Bad Astronomy: “Popeidolia”)

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