Oh the joys of VMware and a copy of Windows 95. The picture says it all.

A nice spoof of Windows Genuine Advantage:

Linux Genuine Advantageâ„¢ is an exciting and mandatory new way for you to place your computer under the remote control of an untrusted third party!

…we have created a new program available as a required free download: Linux Genuine Advantageâ„¢!

Linux Genuine Advantage.

UPDATE: don’t actually download and install the software on that site, apparently it actually works and will lock you out of logging in in 30 days.

This must have taken ages to animate, but it’s absolutely brilliant. Serious props to the creator of this.

Feed reader people, click through for a YouTube embed.

I’m pretty disappointed about no news of Leopard and for the first time in a long time, no iLife/iWork updates at the Macworld 2007 San Fransisco keynote.

It was all iPhone, Apple TV and all that. Yeah, pretty cool – but not what I was really looking for. Apple may have just as well gone to CES, because there was literally no Mac stuff in the whole keynote (I didn’t watch it, but I was following the MacRumours live feed). And I wanted a 10.5 date…

I am pretty disappointed that we still only have the oh-so-slightly vague ‘Spring’ as Leopard’s release date. Oh well…

I love virtual desktops. They rule – they come as standard in virtually every Linux setup and you can get third party programs for other operating systems too. Combine that with the eye candy of Compiz and you have productivity and beauty in a crisp sugar shell. Sorry about the Smarties reference.

Anyway, this is my setup for coding. When I’m happily hacking away (like I have been for the past, oh – four days non stop?) I like to have my virtual desktops like this. By the way, clicking on the screenshots will not allow you to spy on me – they will not get any bigger. Don’t even try. Sorry about the blur too. Needs must, I’m afraid.

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It’s kind of a fusion of ‘live’ and ‘velocity’. Don’t ask me about the name, I’m just a code monkey. 😛

But anyway – this is what I’m working on for a lot of my time at the moment.

Livelocity is a digital media marketplace for anyone. In the digital age, major labels and their top-down system of content delivery are irrelevant. Livelocity seeks to supplant that system with a new system that allows anyone to share and profit off of their art.

Livelocity will be available to the general public on February 14th.

If you’re at all interested in the sound of this, then why not head over and sign up for the beta testing period? It’s not done yet, but the code factory is working pretty much full time (when I can get to a computer and code anyway) so it should be here soon.

Oooh – also, if you know of any musicians or any kind of media creators that might be interested in being part of Livelocity at the beta stage and beyond, then get them in contact with Livelocity’s Chief Idea Factory, Chris Van Patten.

I guess I’ll be back tomorrow with a seasonal and festive post (and you better watch the top right hand corner of the site too :D), but if I’m not, have a great Christmas. I’ll no doubt blog again before the New Year.

Wow. It took Google just over 1 day to index my site and produce results for the following (previously a no-hit) word:

banananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananana

That’s probably helped due to the fact that:

• I’ve registered this site on Google’s Webmaster Tools
• My site has a Google sitemap (generated by this awesome WordPress plugin)
• Google consider my site worth enough to crawl it pretty regularly

In fact, Yahoo also yields results as does Windows Live Search.

I’m surprised at how fast it came through actually, considering my site isn’t exactly that popular (Google reports 3 out of 10 PageRank, but I’m sure that’s undeserved).

Anyway, interesting experiment.

Excuse me, this post will sound a bit random.

I’m actually conducting a quick search engine experiment.

banananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananana.

I’ll tell you what I’m doing a bit later. I’d also appreciate it if you don’t link to this particular post for now. All will be revealed.

Apparently, PC World is selling itself. What’s more – it’s a bargain at only £30 (roughly US$60, and PC World is one of the biggest computer resellers here in the UK).

It’s not real, of course. It’s just PC World listing ‘PC World’ as a purchasable product when doing a search for ‘recovery’ for only £30.

OK, fine, it’s not funny. I know.

Also, slap on the hand for the PC World site not working without JavaScript on. My quest for all sites not relying on JavaScript to operate goes on.

[via Channel Register]

Thank goodness this is a spoof. I was scared there for a moment.

It’s a spoof people (under heavy traffic too at the moment, be patient).