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There is a common saying among the guys. When you want to underline the unattractiveness of a female, you say "I wouldn't be with her, even if she payed." Microsoft will be paying -in terms of rebates- users if they use Microsoft Live Search. This should be a sign how bad it is. I've never used it, but this news will keep me away from it for sure.

I had mentioned in my previous post the humor and kindness of last.fm error messages. Here is another one from today: Someone chewed through our cables Unfortunately, a third party provider has poured tea into their equipment. Tea is dangerous. But we suggest you go and grab a cup whilst we run around shouting at people. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Please come back soon. Lots of love, The Last.fm team. By the way the previous message is 6 months old. Errors don't happen that often in last.fm. This is exactly why I don't want Microsoft buying facebook.

My computer was giving me the blue-screen pretty often lately. After the blue-screen Windows was giving me the extremely informative problem messages (Problem at 0xaddf50329923092302, yes I can speak machine language). I clicked more info button for a change. I was directed to a web-page which told me that the problem was due to an out-of-date IBM application running on my computer and I could solve it if I download an update. What a wonderful surprise. Windows was being user friendly. So I did what I was told to do. For some reason, during the install phase the installer asked me to run the Windows defragmenter. For those who don't speak Geekish defragmeter is a hard-disk re-organizer. Windows does not store the parts of a single application next to each other on the hard disk. So when the an application runs, the hard-disk reader has to jump from one position on the hard-disk to another, which slows the system. Defragmenter tries to put the parts of applications close on the ha...