Friday, May 02, 2008

The Geek Sandwich

So, I was sitting in the subway on the ride home yesterday when I looked glanced to my right to spy on the book the lady beside me was reading and I noticed it was a book on Visual Basic. I smiled and turned away thinking to myself how often these days I've seen people on the train or bus reading a computing book - I saw a guy reading a book on Windows XP a couple of days before. I'm a programmer, I notice these things. Up until I looked to my left, it was a forgettable moment...

And then I looked to my left and saw the gentleman who just entered the train and sat beside me pull out a book on Battlestar Galactica. It was all I could do not to burst out laughing. I don't know if any one else gets it, but it was a funny moment.

In other news this week, Microsoft and Yahoo still don't know whether to make wedding plans and have a baby named Microhoo or throw "Your Mama" style insults back and forth. Good times.

Fantasy Interactive Fi, one of the top interactive website design firms has grown up today with the relaunch of their website and an what amounts to a rebranding of the company and it's goals. They are no longer all about Flash. They like Ajax and html too.