Time Capsule

I've discovered the neatest thing in computers yet.

It's created by Mac, and it's brilliant! It's this thing called a Time Capsule, which is essentially an external hard drive for your computer (which is brilliant enough in its own regard) but they've set this thing up on a wireless network with a program they call Time Machine. The idea is that as soon as you walk into proximity of this thing (say into your house or work) and turn your computer on, it does an automatic backup of you whole system. Then, when something horrible happens and you have lost everything on your computer, you can just go back and get it on your 'time capsule'.

The best part is that if you somehow screw your system up (or a file or whatever), you can opt to go back to last Friday (or whatever day in the last year or something) and recover your whole system (or any file) to the state it was in at that time. So if you got a computer virus (which you wouldn't anyways because you are using a Mac Laptop) than you could just re-load how your computer was yesterday morning, and lose nothing.

I love it and I want it. But it's only on Mac computers.

Someone tell Bill Gates to get on it. Or Dell or whoever. I want my microsoft version of instant and easy protection from having the worst computer luck in the world. Then I could stop wasting half my life backing my files up onto two computers, two external hard drives and DVD. Cause seriously, I don't even know where things are anymore.

My next laptop will be a mac I think

Brilliant!

Bad Picture, but you get the point. I love this 'new' product.

Effective Advertisment

I have been seeing these ads on the subway every day. They are for a university named "Colossal U" and they are irritating to say the least.

The first one I see is a big picture of a cookie cutter shaped like a gingerbread man and the quote reads "Every Colossal U student will turn out exactly the same. We guarantee it." And of course I'm thinking...

what the hell? why would you put something like that in an advertisement? students should want to be different...want to stand apart from their peers and be an individual. the university must be stupid if they think this ad will attract new students in Toronto...

This was the first time I thought I should blog about it. About how stupid it is to have bad advertising to the largest population in Ontario...

So this morning I am on the subway again as usual and I see another ad for this Colossal U, and this time it is a number dispenser like you'd find in a government office or whatever, and the ad reads "Student number 237, your teacher will see you now."

So this morning I was blogging about it *for sure!*

I think someone is really messed in the advertisement committee for this place. They should hire someone new...blah blah.

The point being, I didn't want to blog about it without some info on the university. I google it, and I get this fake site that has the ads, and then a few seconds later the ads fade and they get to the real site about Athabasca University. It's all been a scam to get you pissed and to go to the site to see who the assholes are that would make such horrible ads.

And it worked on me.

Someone in the advertising committee deserves a raise, because they must have done their research in human psychology...