My MSDN subscription wrote this:

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

And I would tend to agree that the performance of Vista could, continuing with the analogy, knock out an entire fleet of vehicles!  :D

I tried and tried to keep it low-key on the down-low but my favorite email service gmail refused to let me send to me and my small circle of friends this executable, so here it is on my website instead.

Attached to this post is a downloadable screensaver of a pugsley (sp) puppy dog licking the monitor from the inside of the computer. Adorable.  But I'd have kicked it outside if I caught a mangy mutt doing that to my 24" Dell flat panel!

I take no credit for the awesomeness that is this video clip; I just used MDM Zinc to wrap it in a .scr screensaver and .exe windows installer.  If you'd like it for the Mac, not sure I can help ya there... enjoy!

Well, I might be exposing my weakness as a designer by not immediately recognizing the ollowing font:

which is a title graphic for the intro flash to the Herrick Goldman Lighting Design website whose font I was asked to identify. It is used on the "inherited flash" intro for which I had no source .fla.

I took a screenshot with the free version of Gadwin Printscreen and saved it as a png, headed over to What the Font, stepped through the short wizard and was amazed at how simple the process and accurate the result was right off the bat. I included in my screenshot of the What the Font results screen (below) the text at the bottom with two suggested paths to get expert human help in the event that the right font was not automatically identified.

This week's TIME Magazine issue had an article "Man Makes Life" that had a line within that caught my attention:

...nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are ... [in the same way that] digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear.

This struck a chord with what I read in the cover article in a recent past issue of SEED Magazine ("The Future of Science .. is Art?"). This article suggested that abstract ideas represented in concrete artwork (music, sculpture, drawings..) are more easily studied than the theoretical concepts and math themselves.

In our community, we have a relatively new geek/designer meet-up called Refresh BCS.  The organizers of the same put on a Barcamp
 this past weekend, but I didn't attend.  Here's why...

 (more to come... stubbed for my friend Google in the meantime ;) )

On my lunch break, I looked up at just the right time to notice a really cool-looking stick caught in a tree. What was interesting to me was the way that it appeared to flex and warp spontaneously when the wind blew.

I tried to capture it to share with the world (see attached video), but hardly caught the full effect for you.

What greatly disappointed me about the whole sighting, however, was when I shared it with a coworker, who typically is interested in the more unobvious things in life, he came, saw, was unamazed, and maliciously removed the stick from its natural chance landing, completely preventing anyone else from happening across the phenomenon.  Why?  I just don't understand...

ok, I mistitled my url on purpose.. But I thought either way it's clever that based on my browser, they knew to toss up an alert tailored to me and my preferred web browser suggesting tips on how to speed up my gmail session. See screenshot:

Upon closer inspection, they actually sniffed out my use of Firebug plugin always running.  They recommend disabling Firebug for gmail. I suppose it would be a good practice, in general, to just enable firebug for specific sites I'm working with-- what a novel idea..

My office is full of antics.. Today, a coworker's hand santizer dispenser turned up in a jello mold. He couldn't have been happier to have been so ingeniously (and effortfully) pranked..

Check out the video of this mess of a mass expressing its kenetic energy.

I was stuck with the dilemma of printing out an entire website for complete overview review, but I didn't want to waste a Lot of paper (only a little). A coworker found a helpful blogpost to get me part of the way, and a comment within gave me the real answer: Web PrintSmart 2.0: HP IE plugin to print an entire or select snippets of an entire website (or web browsing session) in a single print job. In effect, it allows you to queue up small screen shot clips and then print only the ones you choose all from one convenient interface!