A refreshing new episode of the Simpsons came out last night, amongst the highlights was the spin on the “Apple subculture” and the ‘coolness’ of it all. It pretty much summed up my thoughts on the whole elitist crowd of sour Apples.
From the clip:
You’re all losers.
You think you’re all cool because you buy a $500 phone with a picture of a fruit on it? Well guess what? It costs $8 to make and I pee on every one.
I have made a fortune out of you chums, and I’ve invested it all on Microsoft. Now my boyfriend Bill Gates and I kiss each other on a pile of your money.
- Bart Simpson as Steve Mobs
Bart You legend, summed up my thoughts exactly. Following that speech you can see the inspiration from the 1984 Apple commercial following.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few days you would have heard about the shocking development in India (Mumbai - India’s business capital) come face to face with an onslaught of terrorism. Thankfully today, the commandos have successfully brought an end to the 3 day seige.
According to reports, upwards of 60 young men entered Mumbai in small inflatable boats on Wednesday night, carrying bags filled with weapons and ammunition, and spread out to nine locations to begin their attacks. Lobbing grenades and firing their weapons, they entered hotels, a railway station and several other buildings, killing scores and wounding even more.
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Mumbai disaster official R. Jadhav told AFP that 195 people had been killed and nearly 300 injured in the battle, which began when the dozen or so militants split into groups to attack multiple targets across the city, including the main railway station and a hospital.
TV channels described the attacks as “India’s 9/11″.
But I came across a post on the Boston that shows (at times quite graphically) the extent of the chaos. Surreal and unbelievable that such attrocities can be carried out in the name of a religon or ideals.
Now thats what I call skills, Gymkhana encapusulates everything to show your true skills in handling a car - in this case a MY06 Subaru WRX STi. Damn I miss my MY03 STi - not that I could pull _any_ of those styles of driving (except maybe a half-assed powerslide).
“Because as we discussed, you and I are a little out of it… you’re living in some kind of moon house hovering over seatle like the mothership… I got so many cars I get stuck in my own traffic.” - Jerry
“The fact that a design uses inheritance and polymorphisim doesnt make it a good design.” - Bill
“…Are there any monsters in the story?” - Little kid in bed
“Yes! but its ok, theres a firewall.” - Bill
“Power off… ok, power on.” - Jerry whilst Bill doing the Robot
Personally I quite like this one, and the fact that Mr Gates does the robot - I mean come on….
MSY(.com.au - dont go there yet!), one of the most competitive IT hardware stores in Australia recently got hacked and the site has embedded Net-Worm.JS.Aspxor.a worm. Only realised after I went to the site and Firefox blocked the page. You can read all about the hack and the effects on the Whirlpool Thread or Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.
Its always nice when someones got your back. Who knows MSY might actually endup making a proper website now instead of the messy FrontPage site that was.
Just got back from Japan (via Seoul) today, didnt get very much sleep on the plane (does anyone outside of 1st Class and Business Class passengers?) so I spent most of the day catching up on shut-eye. Next few posts I’ll try to gather up some ‘pieces of Japan’ posts to give a glimpse into the culture and people in Japan.
Well I’m still living it up in Japan (the fifth extension to my stay here!) but today marks an important day for the release of two very cool applications I’ve learnt to love and never live without.
Well hello there yet again! After much procrastinating I’ve finally made my first initial post on the “official” thushanfernando.com blog! This is technically the third blog and hopefully the one that will stick till I’m old and gray (actually I’m already starting to go gray).
My previous blog is still available at DeveloperFusion’s blog roll, after so long I finally gave up on CommunityServer because of the constant comment spam and the lack of proper updating to address it. Not to mention that the CS blog editor is bj0rked in Firefox and while I do like to code, there are times when having a visual editor helps - especially in blogging!
This site will be my portfolio of work, thoughts and projects I get up to every so often - that I’m trying to document properly. The site runs on Joomla (main site) andWord Press (blog) two super cool and easy to manage/install/use products powered by PHP.
- not that I could pull _any_ of those styles of driving (except maybe a half-assed powerslide).
