Mario’s World

Need to torture your children? Buy this carpet for them

Firstly, all the characters are cockeyed, which is scary, even for adults.

Secondly, they are all drawn crooked, which will most likely make your children cockeyed.

And last but not least you have gotta love the well spaced and perfect spelled lettering (NOT). They will force any kid to improve their handwriting

If the chimneys at my office got their hands on these large size lighters they may never stop smoking.

On the other hand, these are a little more difficult to loose and they would probably spend less time hunting for lighters.

This is going to come as a shocker to a whole bunch of companies (mine included) that moved (or tried to) from Google Apps to a Microsoft platform . Yes I’m smiling about it cause I’m pro-hosted and pro-web apps.

Also, Outlook sucks.

Below is an extract from Lauren’s blog.

REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewzwire/ — In a move that may surprise some industry onlookers, but that is being described by a company spokesman as “making incredible sense at the bottom line,” Microsoft Corporation announced today that it will begin migrating its corporate information technology operations to archrival Google’s “Google Apps” Internet “cloud”-based services environment by the start of the third quarter this year.

“We’ve gone over the numbers more ways than you can crash Vista, said Hymie Morander of the newly formed “Microogly” working group at the software giant’s Washington State headquarters. “We’re going to save millions — maybe billions! — by moving most of our employees over to free Google Apps services like Gmail. Plus we’ll be freeing up resources here to concentrate on our core competencies like Flight Simulator and stylus-based mobile phone operating systems.”

Asked if the $50/user/year “Google Apps for Business” services tier might be more appropriate for Microsoft’s use, Morander noted that, “Some of our top executives’ needs will likely justify that level of expenditure, but most of us will be able to do just fine with the very generous allotments in the free versions of Google Apps. Seven gigs of storage is more than enough to6 hold all of my Microsoft internal correspondence, plus most of my uuencoded porn collection! Every Microsoft employee will be assigned a nondescript alias for Gmail use to avoid attracting Google’s attention — for instance, I’m bangloryman@gmail.com.”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized that Microsoft’s move to Google Apps only involved Microsoft’s internal global corporate operations, and would not in any way impact customer-facing services such as Microsoft’s popular “Bing” decision engine.

“Given Microsoft’s intense desire to enthusiastically embrace the diverse and expansive censorship requirements of our partners in the Chinese government, and Google’s apparent reluctance to meet those same requirements, we’ll definitely be keeping our Bing and other related public-use servers running on their current CP/M Windows 98 secure clusters into the foreseeable future,” Ballmer promised.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

SOURCE Microsoft Corp.

Why are the fuel cables at petrol stations so long? They should be just long enough to reach the car.

This fellow above couldn’t wait in line and then drove in front of me only to play tug-of-war with the fuel cable for a whole minute  before managing  to fill up his vehicle. This seemed pretty dangerous to me but none of the station attendants gave him a second glance.

Take a close look at the dial on this safe. It’s covered in adhesive tape. That’s what happens when Indians want to keep something safe.

The 10 ton safe in itself is not safe enough. 3 to 4 layers of adhesive tape applied over the dial is your safest bet against intruders

Wonder if we’ll see any movies in the near future where robbers break into a safe secured with adhesive tape.

Check out these eggs. All have strings attached.

And are sold by the crate.

And just in case you haven’t figured it out, they are plastic eggs being sold for Easter. The string is a nice idea and comes in handy for hanging them on display.

Well, its official. I’ve retired from FarmVille. Went from 0 to 70 in 1 month. A lot of people have asked me how? How did I manage to reach the “max level” so fast. Well, i’m going to share with ya’ll.

While playing I maintained an excel sheet listing all the seeds with their prices as they were available. I did a little math with those figures and came up with a pretty good strategy to play FV. Planting berries are good. I also sorted everything by hours/days so its easy to plan your harvesting times.

Other than harvesting you can buy decorations cheap. Haybales are the answer. Each XP costs 19 coins. Better still are soybeans when they are available. They cost 7.5 coins per XP. Just plant the soybeans and delete them soon after.

There are several tools available to assist as well. Clicking takes forever so once I upgraded to a 20×20 farm, I started using FarmVille Magic Tools. It’s a great app that does all the clicking for you.

“Miami Beach”. That’s what the board says.

I just love this ad!

I gotta get me one of these. Maybe I’ll build one too!