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There They’re an investment you see…
The Wall Street Journal has a sense of humour
post on the WSJ blog (which is running on WordPress incidentally) actually references an article on the Onion. The Onion by the way is a satirical online newspaper type thingy that I never thought a serious journalistic endeavour would talk about.
The WSJ points out that it’s “hard to write satire, but it’s even harder to write satire about corporate taxes”.
In fact it’s so good that I might even read despite the fact that I understand alarmingly little about what it’s talking about. Another post talks about some bankrupty meeting in New York:
“The California utility, which filed for bankruptcy at the end of December, only served ice water; last year’s Delta meeting featured coffee and soda (did Delta borrow from its airplane beverage carts?).”
Happy Birthday Jade
Oooh, “extended interview”
Although I keep thinking of ways for it to go badly, I did that before the first interview and everything worked out fine...
I’m going to Belgium again!
I'm going to
Just thought I’d share 
On a scarier note, I have that interview later today….
Windows Metafile vulnerability
Wikipedia about a vulnerability in how Windows reads WMF files. The reason why I find this so interesting is because apparently the vulnerability exists versions of Windows all the way back to 3.0!
Doesn’t that mean that a serious bug that allows malicious code to be executed has actually existed for 15 years without being exploited? That has to be some sort of record…
Civilization IV rocks
If you don't know, Civilization is a game where you control a civilization from ancient stone age times through to the near future (the last technology you develop allows travel to Alpha Centauri). This version adds a lot to the basic idea though.
The biggest addition is religion. It was always going to be a touchy subject but since religion has had a huge impact on Civilization they couldn't ignore it forever. All the religions in the game are basically handled the same, the only differences being what you need to do to found them. The fact that you can found them can cause events that are vaguely blasphemous (Like founding both Buddhism and Christianity in London) but this is really no worse than warfare between two countries that never fought each other in the real world.
I can't really describe all the coolness here but anyone remotely interested in the genre should go out and buy this game.
Happy New Year