Monthly Archives: September 2003

Rudy Giuliani – Amateur Photographer

Sep 15, 2003

Former Mayor of New York and current Mayor of America, Rudy Giuliani, is by far and away the politician I respect and admire the most, but there is something about him I never knew. He’s also an amateur photographer. Giuliani says “I remember spending four months trying to get just the right photograph that would recreate for me how I felt about the Brooklyn Bridge.” I can relate to this because I lived a lot of my life in NYC and used to take a lot of pictures in the same way. Here are some of his shots.

Die Microsoft !!!

Sep 10, 2003

It is things like this that will make those of us who didn’t already jump on the Microsoft hating bandwagon, hop on board….

.NET Messenger Service Staff: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx to complete the update.

This is the message you get now when running Trillian, a program that lets you run all instant messaging programs from one interface. Sounds like a great idea, right? Microsoft doesn’t think so. They never learn. The annoying thing is, because I have several friends that use MSN/Windows Messenger, I took the bait and upgraded MSN Messenger only to discover you still get the annoying message to upgrade and you’ll continue to get it until you give up Trillian.

On a funnier note, a search for “die microsoft” gets a whopping 77,800 results on google. Make that 77,801. (ok, to be fair, “die” means “the” in German)

Happy 5th Birthday Google

Sep 7, 2003

Today is the 5th birthday of Google. Hard to believe it’s been around that long. Here is a timeline that tells a little bit of the story of how Google became the search engine that spits on all other search engines.