I was Thinking, or Not

Link to full article with images that did not transfer for some reason Well first I will start with death, since it is the place that seems to be of most interest to most people.  Some well known people died this year, but that is true with every year, so I am not going to post a bunch of names, there are tons of list on the web that do that.  This year we all know about the loss of Apple’s bigger than life leader Steve Jobs .  We also should mention that there were many other pioneers of the computing industry that also past.   Wired provides a decent list of them, although it seems to be missing something, and it has some errors in content, it is a list just the same.  To me the really weird part is that I am almost their age, and wonder, is it the computer that has taken their lives this way. Well before I go down that rabbit hole, let me move on to other things that happened, and what is significant to 2011.  A lot personally has happened to me ...

Microsoft announces $250000 Conflicker worm bounty Amidst the recession they are opening stores, while they still have not figured out how to secure their operating system. Although I guess some of that is that they have a larger target, but not all of it. So now Microsoft is going the way of the sheriff, if you can't fix it, throw some more money around and let the people who fix these things actually do your job. They set a bad presidence here, saying that if you create a bad virus that Microsoft can not find the fix for, they will give you money to fix it. Cyber bounty hunters, how long did it take, I had been waiting for Microsoft to do this for some years now, I don't think this will work either. Interesting that it is a pacific rim infection, sort of like a test of infections spreading from the east, and can they transfer to the west. So far we have kept the eastern viruses from spreading, or is that what they are telling us... can't think like that can we. The...

Microsoft to open retail stores For being number one they always seem to be following their rivals. Hmm, seems like again they will try to make it gold by doing what others have proven, if only they can ram this down the consumers throat like they did everything else. Okay, I am bitter about Microsoft, but that is only because I guess it is because I am really bitter about the fucking idiots that keep buying crap and calling it a fine example of prime. Whatever, I wish them luck, they will need it. I am sure they will be successful, even if they have to buy their success. You know Microsoft reminds me of the spoiled brat that can't win by wit or stregnth so they buy their friends in the hopes that everyone will think they are cool, because they bought their coolness from the cool kids. I used to sell drugs to the cool kids, they were not so cool, they were just another branch of the same fucking idiots that thought they were something, while I stole their souls with aphedimin...