Archive for February, 2004

It finally happened… The version of Adobe Photoshop CS I was using had the old “serial-expires-on-February-1st” trick happen to me… So after a month of using a trial version and the older “changing-the-clock-back-to-January” trick I thought “it’s been a month, more or less, I’m pretty sure the mad genius’ out there have cracked this problem by now…”

And I found they have, hallelujah!

If you have the same problem as me, download the crack from keygen.us and you should be sorted if you follow the instructions given.

(via Funny Logic)

I’m a hypocrite… Last month I had a post called “All Rights Reserved” about me jumping on the Tequilamockingbird vs. Bryan Lamb righteous cause of copyright infringement… Only for me to do something far more heinous than copying someone’s words.

What’s that you ask?

How about a design? And yeah, I got busted for it… So now I’ve sent Michael a rather apologetic e-mail and crossing my fingers he doesn’t decide to take matters any further, I’ve also left this place as barren as I could at short notice as another kind of way of saying “sorry”.

So if you read any comments saying how low and despicable I am, now you know.

Feel free to lambaste me and distance yourself from me if you wish. I’m not denying what I did. And I am sorry for what it’s worth…

We got a new member of our motley crew of the damned extended family today in the shape of Linus’ real, real brother… Which we’ve christened “Sally” just to confuse the two of them, seeing as Linus is a girl and Sally a boy. And he’s just an adorable little kitten, the runt of the litter no less. Linus is a little ball of fluff, and Sally is like half her size.

He arrived just over an hour ago, so the rest of the cats are not quite sure how to treat him… Linus is all hissy, Pigpen doesn’t really care and Snoopy cares even less than Pigpen.

Anyways, here he is…

Ever since the song “Hey Ya” by Andre 3000 of Outkast came out, everyone is shaking their Polaroid pictures. I have always been told that you should not shake a Polaroid picture, but I’m having a hard time convincing those around me that this is true. What is the answer?

Polaroid say “NO, just lay it down flat OK!”

OK then… But “lay it on a flat surface like a Polaroid picture” doesn’t sound nearly as cool does it?

A funny fact about Pepsi’s iTunes Giveaway. There is a way you can ALWAYS* win

“Hi, I’m Greg, and I currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia and in my spare time I like to defraud leading cola retailers.”

Hey, Atlanta is prime Coca-Cola land, I’m doing my bit for the cause *upraised fist*.

* = Not always proven to win, I’ll do some research at the nearest Publix and get back to you, any codes I find in said Publix will be added to a notepad so I can cash them in as soon as I get home… Brings new meaning to “No Purchase Necessary”.

This time via the new(ish) look Copydesk…

A number of BBC staff placed this advert in the Daily Telegraph and much kudos to them… There is also a nice link to Scary Duck’s blog that tells it like it is…

There is nothing in the world, however, like a vengeful Blairite, and Hutton has left the BBC on a knife-edge just two years before charter renewal. The licence fee? Editorial independence? The right to take risks and ask difficult questions? All these, say here today, and dare I say it, gone tomorrow, culture minister Tessa Jowell are beyond discussion – but how many both within and outside the corporation actually believe her? After all, the Kelly affair left both Chairman Gavyn Davies and DG Dyke sacrificed to the government like pawns in a one-sided game of chess.

Governments are sprawling Jekyll and Hyde organisations. They come to power on a tide of promises and goodwill, but eventually the power hungry Hyde surfaces with his broken promises, trampling on those who get in their way. Underneath the officially airbrushed smile is a sharp-toothed monster, spinning for all it’s worth, and is never, ever wrong.

So, who do you trust? A BBC that makes mistakes every now and then, or a rabid print media in the hands of a few millionaire businessmen that can lie and distort on their front pages and never have to take a word back; whilst spoon-feed stories by political spin-doctors?

For 116 quid a year you get eight TV channels, five national radio networks, separate networks for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with their own language services. Local radio. The world’s best web site. Your taxes buy the world’s most listened to radio station. I know who I trust, and I’m proud to work for them.

So. Not. Worthy!

Anyways, I’ll leave you with a few images that caught my eye on SuperHeroHype, it’s another Batman cartoon series and too cool NOT to share.

A new scholarship created for whitey only.

A student group at Roger Williams University is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action.

The application for the $250 award requires an essay on “why you are proud of your white heritage” and a recent picture to “confirm whiteness.”

“Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants,” says the application, issued by the university’s College Republicans.

Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is parodying minority scholarships.

So am I the only one who doesn’t see the funny side?