I asked Molly to send some Friday Five questions my way, as I didn’t like the ones up on their site for the last few weeks and didn’t feel like flipping through their archive:

1. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A train engineer. I had a fascination with trains when I was younger, and wanted to be the one who would drive it from point A to point B. At the time, my brother had the idea of being the best chef, so we made a deal that I would drive passenger trains, and he would be the head chef cooking the meals that we would all eat.

Ahhh, the imaginations we had when we were younger. Didn’t quite turn out as we planned.  

2. What is your current favourite song?

“Gives You Hell” by the All-American Rejects. I don’t know why I like it so much, but for the last few months, it’s been one I’ve played quite a bit.

3. What was your best latest purchase?

Hah. That’s easy. The cleaning of the family engagement ring that I proposed to Molly with.

I bet you thought I was going to claim it was some piece of technology…!?   

4. What is something you always wanted to do and have never done?

Walk on the moon. Sadly, I don’t think it will ever happen.

5. If you were to be a movie character from a Sci Fi film, what character would you be?

Malcolm Reynolds from the short-lived TV series “Firefly” and the subsequent film “Serenity“. His sense of humour and sarcasm, lack of respect for authority, yet solid moral code, makes him a very cool character.

This reminds me of that Sesame Street song “One of these things is not like the others”. Can’t believe that they did this for the Polish Microsoft site. Wow. Can you spot the difference?

Talk about a horrible Photoshop job. They couldn’t even be bothered to change the colour of the dude’s hand, or do a proper recreation of what the background would look like now that the new dude’s head is smaller. Oh, and let’s not forget the fact that this stinks of some petty racism. WTF? Who’s bright idea what this…!?

Thanks to Simon for sending this my way.

There are a number of times when I’m asked how to do something in whatever application or operating system, and I simply have no idea. However, almost every application or operating system follows a certain type of logic or layout, so it is usually just a matter of figuring out what they want to do, and then checking the logical places where the application or operating system developers would have put that option. When all else fails, that’s when we resort to Google (and become as Jared calls it “an ‘HGI’: a Human Google Interface”).  

So, I had a laugh when I noticed that Jared had tagged me in this image so I would see it:

Thanks dude. That was awesome.

Update (2009-08-24): Should’ve known this was an XKCD comic, but I didn’t read my list of comics this morning, and I didn’t notice this until now. I *thought* the font looked familiar.  

On average, Pashmina out meows Coconut by a ratio of 2:1. In this clip, we just got home, and Pashmina had lots to say and decided to follow me around. She’s so cute.

This recently came to mind while I was attempting to download an iPhone game entitled “Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor“, which weighed in at 56MB (I have yet to play it, but we’ll see if I like it or not, and if it was worth the $2.99):

Why am I not allowed to download this game directly to the iPhone via the app store application due to it’s large size, yet I can tether my iPhone to my Macbook, download the game via iTunes, and then sync the iPhone to have the game installed…?

Seems to be an unnecessary inconvenience to me. I’m using my data plan either way, so why not just make it easier?