Battlestar Galactica: The Passage Screws Up (Jupiter vs. Zeus)

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Adam Nash

Drat. I really like Battlestar Galactica. It has been one of my favorite shows for the past couple of years. I don’t want to criticize it. I don’t want to be annoyed by it. But long before I liked Battlestar Galactica, I loved Greek & Roman mythology. And they are making really stupid mistakes. In [...]

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Microsoft’s Jim Allchin: ‘I would buy a Mac if I didn’t work for Microsoft’

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Adam Nash

Sorry, but I found two Apple/Microsoft snippets worth posting today. This ComputerWorld article is amazing. Jim Allchin is the long-time development chief for Windows at Microsoft. ComputerWorld is reporting that a 2004 e-mail from Allchin chastizes Microsoft for having lost focus on the user, and says that he would buy a Mac if he didn’t [...]

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Microsoft Copies Apple Icons…

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Adam Nash

Found this funny snippet today online. Looks like Microsoft was caught with an Apple icon on one of its properties. Here is the image from Microsoft’s website for Vista Business Edition: Here is the original version from Apple’s Workgroup Server: Funny snarky comment from the blog where I got this: Think of a snarky comment [...]

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