Faraway, So Close

Watch this:

And then watch some/one of these:

And then read this if you’re still not convinced that Microsoft doesn’t get it. John (Chairman) Gruber, writer of Daring Fireball.net, always manages to write what I think I’m thinking but I have no idea how to actually write it… or actually think it.

Guess what showed up today out of nowhere. A Purolator delivery with a 120GB hard drive. How bizarre. Glad to know I wasn’t crazy in pursuing this but it would’ve been nice if someone, somewhere at Xbox support had noted that they got my hard drive and sent it back on my [...]

Updated: 9/18/2008 I got it back! A 120GB hard drive showed up today via Purolator.
Here’s my sob story. It’s decidedly a “first world problem.”

Update: 09/11/2008 4:30pm Call #2 to Xbox support yielded the same result as call #1. Someone stating that they were as high up as I [...]

I don’t think the ‘Get a Mac’ ads are particularly brilliant either, but this definitely doesn’t help sell a Windows OS to me. I guess they might be building to something with this.

Did you know that the font known as Arial just a cheap knock-off of Helvetica? True story.

Microsoft has released version 7 of their Messenger for Mac application. You can go here to download it. They’ve finally added video/audio support on the Mac - but only to corporate accounts (as in, not for you). Apparently video/audio support is coming later this year for the rest of us.