distracting the audience

While misdirecting the audience's attention works well in magic shows, I don't think "forget how much we suck, these other people suck worse. really." is a terribly effective PR strategy. But what do I know, I'm not a marketing expert.

"As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it," Apple said on its site.

The chutzpa does make me laugh though. After all, your immune system really should be stronger to fight the SARS I brought into your home when you invited me to dinner last week. I bet you don't even take vitamin C. You're bringing illness on yourself really. You should seek psychiatric help, you're obviously suffering from Munchausen Syndrome.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like Apple, but they are kidding themselves if they really believe that they are superior when it comes to security. Based on what I've seen in the world, I'd say EVERYONE sucks. Hell, if a critical system like electronic voting boxes can't be locked down, what chances does a commercial app have?

~Elphie

Daily Show Geeks for sale

if you chuckle at John Hodgman selling himself as the nerdy (but lovable!) PC in the Mac ad campaign, and you enjoy the Trendspotting segments on The Daily Show, you'll probably enjoy Clearification. It is by far the strangest marketing I've ever seen from Microsoft. Not that I'm saying its a bad thing. Microsoft's ads generally suck ass. This is kind of funny, even if it is random and off the wall. Enjoy.

~Elphie

Some people dream of success...

I think this is pretty humorous.

"Google has always had a good search, but it was the security side that it's not good at," Ellison told reporters at the annual Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo 2006 conference in Japan.

"We have the security problem solved. That's what we're good at, and that's the hard part of the problem."

- Larry Ellison

That's right, Larry "Unbreakable" Ellison is saying that Oracle has the security problem solved. I guess one theory of success is to "assume you have already won" and act that way. I don't think it is working with this guy though - he doesn't sound convinced to me...

~Elphie