There’s something new around here. $20 to the first person who can guess what it is before I reveal it later this week.

R: I can’t do that. B: Then I’d like to talk to your supervisor. R: He will tell you the same thing that I did. B: Then I’d like to talk to his supervisor. R: He doesn’t have one. B: Does he own the company? R: (chuckles) No, he doesn’t own the company. B: Then he has a boss and I’d like to talk to him. R: You can call the corporate office… B: What’s the number?

I HAVE TWO GIGS OF RAM AND LESS THEN ONE HUNDRED MEGS FREE. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?

Basically, it boils down to the same reason Star Wars sucks and the reason the entire series of Enterprise sucked. First, take a look at the poster. The problem isn’t that they’re going old school. The problem is that it won’t be. They won’t do it right. The ship won’t look the same, the tricorders won’t be the same, the history won’t be the same. Just like with Star Wars, and just like with Enterprise when they make something that should be about the fans, and bringing the fans back to their first love they will instead try to “re-invent” the genre to attract larger audiences.

There’s been a buzz lately about Mac OS X phoning home. The skinny of this is that with the 10.4.7 update a new program called the dashboardadvisoryd makes two requests to Apple servers every eight hours. The purpose of these requests is to check if all of your Dashboard widgets are up to date. Now people are making a big fuss comparing this to Microsoft’s WGA. The rumor mill being what it is, let’s assume for the moment that all the rumors are true.