The MSI Wind Manual!

The opening greeting:
Congratulations on becoming an user of this notebook, the finely designed notebook. This brand-new exquisite notebook will give you a delightful and professional experience in using notebook. We are proud to tell our users that this notebook is thoroughly tested and certified by our reputation for unsurpassed dependability and customer satisfaction.
Well, the excellence [...]

Uh-Oh! MSI Wind With 3-Cell Battery Only?

Battery Shortages feared
A retailer tells a customer that initial MSI Wind shipments will have the 3-cell battery only.
If you recall, the XP version is supposed to have the 6-cell battery.
How will MSI handle this? If we buy one with the 3-cell, are we SOOL because we wouldn’t wait for the 6-cell in the box?
If [...]

Nikki Finke Has Deadly Accuracy

You must read: Digital Big Media vs Prehistoric Hollywood

R.I.P. Harvey Korman

‘Carol Burnett’ star Harvey Korman dies at 81
LOS ANGELES - Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in “Blazing Saddles,” died Thursday. He was 81.
Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications [...]

Wherein I Threaten MSI!

Nate in the Comments told me about a sneak peak CNet’s Crave has done of the MSI Wind lust-o-licious cheap subnote.
I’ve finally had time to go look at everything.
Sneak peek photos
Sneak peek preview
Sneak peek video
First, let me get my cheap shots out of the way.
You can’t reveal the CPU?! It’s a secret?! Come [...]

Mind-Reading Computer? FAIL!

Mind 101: We Do Not Work Like That!
Computer trained to “read” mind images of words
A computer has been trained to “read” people’s minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday.
They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how [...]

Meet, Support Ralph Nader For President!

I know you.
You’ve sat around, wanting someone who will do things.
Someone who isn’t in the pocket of special interests.
Someone with a real record of getting things done.
Someone with principles.
You’ve sat there and wondered why we don’t have another Lincoln or FDR.
Well we do.
And you can vote for him.
Make your vote mean something this November.
Give it [...]

And I’m Back!

“I feel a new man!”
For those who don’t know the several minutes of behind-the-scenes drama that was taking place, see this post on the Blogger back up: Locked Out Of My WordPress Blog?
I went to the WordPress Support forum and everyone has been experiencing problems today.
I guess this sign-on glitch was just the latest.
I’ve also [...]

Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #115

I blew past this as a link in post #114.
It’s important enough to deserve its own post.
This is another chart that should scare the living shit out of you.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has it in his blog, the post titled Whoops!
Greenspan has a lot to answer for.
I don’t blame Greenspan.
It’s all Dubya.

The Deserved Fall Of General Motors

GM says 19K US hourly workers taking its buyout offers
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. said Thursday that a quarter of its U.S. hourly workers will take the company’s latest buyout and early retirement offers, opening the door for new hires who will make less money.
The automaker said Thursday that 19,000 workers had agreed to [...]