These days, finding out about another virus that can attack Microsoft software is just another part of your day. Like, you wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, find out that there's another piece of malicious software kicking around. It's become routine. Then, once you're ready for work, you take your cell phone with you and check it for messages as you get behind the wheel of your car. It's sure come a long way, the cell phone. And some people claim that they'll make handheld game consoles like the Nintendo DS obsolete. Two words for you, Andrew Lim. Nokia N-Gage. How about eleven more words? The buttons are too small, and too close together for gaming. Also, which DS games are you comparing iPhone games to, Lunar: Dragon Song?
In other news, another witch hunter has been forced to leave gamers alone, this time by the economy. The National Institute on Media and the Family has shut down, and according to its founder, David Walsh, it's because the economy is so poor that he can't afford to continue his work. Oh, boo hoo, we won't have to worry about another ill-informed anti-gaming crusader.
Bad news for NaNoWriMo participants. (Good news for me: I'm at 35327 words.) Science fiction seems to be on the way out. Or at least, the authors of the genre are out of ideas. The days of tech-inspiring science fiction may be over, but that doesn't mean that science fiction can't continue onward. We might just have all the technology we need right now. However, if you're a smoker, you apparently can't get your awesome technology repaired, at least by Apple. Naturally, smokers consider this to be unjust. What I consider unjust is to have to be around smokers who stink heavily of cigarettes. The worst was about a year ago, when I bought a box of trading cards from someone on eBay who didn't mention they were a smoker. When I received it, I found that the plastic shrink wrap around the box was contaminated with cigarette smoke, so I quickly removed it. Once it was off, I found the box was also contaminated. When I found that the wrappers around the cards were also contaminated, I was angry. But fortunately, Upper Deck packages their cards well, and the actual trading cards within were fine. I washed my hands thoroughly before I even touched the cards. I can definitely see why Apple doesn't want to handle computers that are owned by someone who smokes.
Bad news for college students in the Pitts. The mayor wants to raise your taxes. It's bad enough that you're going into debt to pay for your education, but now you're expected to pay the city government for the privilege of going to university there. Of course, if you want your voice heard, you could go to the public hearing. You know, the one on the 30th that takes place in the morning, when you're supposed to be in class.
Bad news for the Chinese. The Internet is a great resource for information, unless you're a Chinaman using Bing anywhere in the world. Then again, all search engines seem to do similar things. Still, Bing takes the cake for censorship. And, of course, Microsoft blames it on bugs. Heaven forbid they take responsibility for their own programming.
If you're sick of all this bad news, here's something a little more uplifting... well, not unless you have some very powerful muscles: the Internet is very heavy.
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