“…You can’t use Jäger to clean a wound.”

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 04/28/08 at 10:04:59 am

Adam Girard

BATON ROUGE, LA—Veteran partier Adam Girard announced his intentions to continue partying late Saturday evening, assuring onlookers that the multiple injuries he had sustained over the previous six hours did not require medical attention, and were not severe enough to prematurely end the festivities.

Nothing wrong with a good chuckle to start off the week, here’s an absolutely hilarious article about a man determined to party despite serious injuries and extreme intoxication.

Global Warming: Everything you need to know.

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 04/14/08 at 08:04:25 pm

By a show of hands, how many of us have seen this commercial aired on television in the last few weeks?

The commercial is for WeCanSolveIt.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan campaign founded by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The ‘We’ Campaign was put together by The Alliance for Climate Protection whom is a group dedicated to expressing the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing an effective and comprehensive solution for our ever growing climate crisis.

WeCanSolveIt.orgDon’t be surprised if I reference this website more often in the future as it offers loads of resources and information about what we can do to better our environment. You too can help drive friends, family, community, corporations, and government to get involved in solving the climate crisis, visit WeCanSolveIt.org to learn more.

Windows 7 in a year? Not Likely.

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 04/07/08 at 03:04:00 pm

Windows 7If you’ve been keeping up with the current events you may have noticed a quote taken from Bill Gates this past week where he stated - “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version [of Windows],”. Nearly overnight only in an internet of chaos has the totally vague comment manifested into an apparent product announcement from Microsoft.

According to Ars Technica (and anyone in the right mind) by using common knowledge of Microsoft’s release history and understanding what goes into a big software release such as the next version of Windows, there is no way we will see a Windows 7 release within a feasible feature as it’s being reported by the big media sources and much of the blogosphere. The comment was made at an annual developer conference in Miami where Microsoft also stated several times that Windows 7 is in planning stages and the development is slated to last at least 3 years from the general availability of Windows Vista.

To make a long story short, the article (which you can read here) concludes that Windows 7 could be in beta testing by 2009 but a retail release is more likely to be expected two or more years from now, not one.

Microsoft’s Latest: IE 8 & Vista SP1

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 03/19/08 at 03:03:58 pm

Microsoft has been very busy with the software updates lately which to me is somewhat surprising. From what I’ve seen in the past when there’s a big OS launch in the works like Server 2008 they have a tendency to fall behind on their other promises.

Internet Explorer 8 although still in beta was a big surprise, businesses and end users are always going to be slow to adapt so for me it still feels like IE 7 was just released. The new Internet Explorer offers a refreshing set of features such as social community integration but more importantly Microsoft has worked hard on improving standards compliance. With the work being put into the new browser one thing is certain – Microsoft is not taking Firefox’s move into browser market share lightly.

For fans of Facebook, Live Maps, and eBay the new Flock-like ‘WebSlices’ feature will definitely make the browser more user friendly, but the attention to standards compliance is what has many of the developers buzzing. IE8 being able to pass the Acid2 test without issue marks a big milestone for the browser. Microsoft is also promising better AJAX compatibility with new features like the ability to use the browser buttons with the application, for an example: You could zoom in/out with the back and forward buttons.

Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista was officially released to the masses yesterday. Naturally, the highly anticipated service pack is mostly composed of performance tweaks and bug fixes but the sheer volume of changes as outlined in the release notes is impressive. After just one day of SP1 being available for download sources like Engadget are reporting various driver problems and software incompatibilities, then again is that really news when it comes to Vista? Personally, I installed SP1 onto my notebook last night without any issues but Microsoft reports that it’s still working on “problematic drivers”.

Will Internet Explorer 8 be the next best browser? Could Service Pack 1 become the end-all for Vista distress? I’m doubting it, but only time will tell.

Lifehacker’s 2007 Software Superlatives

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 12/13/07 at 12:12:19 pm

It’s almost New Year’s again, and what better way to end 2007 than coming up with lists of the best and worst software and applications that have been created over the last 12 months? Which program has the best Easter egg? Or the best splash screen? And which company is most likely to turn evil and take over the interweb in the near future?

I won’t leave you hungry little birdies, Lifehacker has such a list and some of the results may surprise you!

Sinking Currency, Sinking Country

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 11/04/07 at 11:11:23 pm

That’s the title of this article I came across tonight. A couple weeks ago I was working on some project and somehow I got myself into the conversion of Canadian Dollars to US Dollars. To my surprise the Canadian money was now worth MORE than our currency. Then it hit me, there is something seriously wrong with our economy. I’m not talking about the minor hike in living costs or our demand on oil and everything. It’s a real problem, a serious problem that could take decades to crawl out of if we are able to crawl out of it.

Despite my personal beliefs that the Bush administration is the sole cause of our entire economical system going down the drain over the past 8+ years… This article has some interesting information about how our country relies on imports and the exporting countries rely on the value or our dollar. More importantly, (at least to me) is what kind of effect that this will have on average Americans. Take a look.

Identity Thieves, meet your kryptonite.

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 10/23/07 at 03:10:35 pm

There are a few things in this world that thieves need to keep in mind in order to run a successful criminal operation. For example, don’t take the cash you just stole from one bank to another bank down the street to have it deposited into your account. Don’t steal someone’s MacBook and take it to the Apple Store Genius Bar the next day to get help with OS X. And finally, don’t steal a drivers’ license printer from the DMV, only to call up the manufacturer the next day looking for drivers.

Check out the rest of the article on Ars Technica, hilarity ensures.

How about I pay you in QUID?

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 10/08/07 at 02:10:04 pm

I came across this article today. Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination or QUID could become the universally accepted currency for Intergalactic travel. It’s actually an interesting read about how the new currency was designed… I wonder when my local Wal-Mart will start accepting it as payment?

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