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So Microsoft tries to make a bid for Yahoo in a move that is being ridiculed on numerous blogs. When will companies stop trying to buy their way into being cool? It doesn’t work. If you aren’t Apple, don’t try to be. Arthur Mitchell says it better than I could.

Adobe and Omniture were recently caught for snooping on its CS3 users. The story has been covered in other sources as well, so I won’t regurgitate it here. Suffice it to say, it’s really disturbing to see software we use every day from reputable companies like Adobe and Omniture stooping to these low-life, black hat hacker tactics to spy on their own base. What’s wrong with a survey, Adobe? I’ve filled out every one you’ve sent me since 1990. I won’t anymore.

Apple should tie together the color labels for folders with the Finder labels. They should also increase the number of colors available to the user. This way, entire projects can be color coded, and all folders and notes can be searched by color and label, in addition to the standard operators.

I’d also like to see a tag system added so a job number for example, could be added as a tag to all elements of a project, making it easier to keep projects together, regardless of what folders they occupy.

1. Your friends routinely throw sheep at you. You do not find this at all disturbing.
2. You start dreaming your friends are all werewolves and you’re a vampire. You do not slayall of them as you need at least one to play Scrabulous with.
3. You’ve groped, dry-humped, licked and trout-slapped 190 women that you’ve never met in person.
4. Your Facebook profile has more apps than your computer does.
5. The majority of the text messages you receive are friends’ status updates.

Originally posted on Davezilla

So after posting last month that it seemed like Northwest was getting better, I must change my tune. I experienced the worst airline experience I’ve ever had. A routine trip to our L.A. office:

1. Flight out: 10 mins late boarding.
2. “Please deplane, we are over the weight restriction.” Whatever that means. Don’t they know how much a plane can hold by now?
3. “Please board the new plane in 45 minutes.” Ugh. Fine.
4. (45 minutes becomes an hour and a half)
5. Second plane has a broken start valve
6. About 45 minutes later, the start valve is fixed and we leave
7. We are now 2 hours late departing and will have 15 minutes to get from LAX to the Campbell-Ewald L.A. office.
8. Once over the Rockies, we were bouncing with a turbulence that the Cedar Point Amusement Park would be envious of. Admittedly, this is not Northwest’s fault, nor is it under their control. I leave it in only because it made the ride that much worse.
9. Then we begin choking on the smell of the fires over Malibu, et al. Again, not Northwest’s fault.
10. We finally land, a 4-1/2 hour trip became 8 hours