Thirty Helens Agree

Time for a new catagory I think.. Why I love the internet. I present to you, The Breakup [youtube.com].

I logged into my Gmail account this morning and it looks like Gmail for Domains has hit beta! Check out the screen shots:

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Recently I’ve heard people using the terms tool and doosh interchangeably for the same person. While they are very close in meaning they are distinctly different. Let me see if I can elaborate and clear this up for everyone. It would probably be easier if I described the type of person that would qualify for each one.

Tool
A tool is what I like to call “that guy”. Way too into himself, his flat top, and his Hummer H2. I picture walking by the tool, on his Nextel which was formally clipped to his leather weave belt, and talking too loudly: “Sully, sup dooood? Yuh dood, I’m gonna swing by the packy and head ova after I hit the gym. I gotta pound on my lats for a couple. Ahhite, see you lata!” Please note any of the following up the “tool quotient”: Gold chain, wrestling shoes, a sticker of Calvin pissing on anything, poor facial hair.

Doosh
A doosh is a bit more subtle and I think you run into more dooshs than you do tools. Although, that may just be the environments I tend to frequent as corporate America is packed to the brim with the doosh. A classic doosh that everyone may know is the principal on Ferris Beuller’s Day Off. A doosh is a little harder to nail down but you always have a gut feeling that something is a little off when you are around a doosh. Tyra Banks on the Tyra Banks’ talkshow: Doosh. Tyra Banks confronting her fear of dolphins on the show: Doosh Chills (see below).

Doosh Chill
You don’t necessarily need a doosh involved in the Doosh Chill, just something dooshy has to happen. A great example of this is a newscaster using the word bling. Now, not the entertainment reporter that can sort of get away with it, the lead newscaster that clearly doesn’t even know what the word means: “Looking to add more bling to your cell phone? Ms. Entertainment coming up next with the latest accessories.” Or something just so over the top lame that it gives you that quiver: Watching the awkward wife on wifeswap go into the character of a Night Elf while trying to get the normal family into D&D. Brutal. I have lingering doosh chills from that.. hell you may have doosh chills from the thought of me watching wife swap. It is all in the name of science.I hope this clears it up.

Now go off armed with your new understanding of these wonderful adjectives!

Check it out over at the xda-developers.com. This will help if I want to jump up to the latest Firmware that supports the AKU2 update. I’ll let you know how it goes! :)

Oh, and thanks to Cingular for the image..

The most recent addition to the Windows Live (worst product name ever) is Windows Live Search. While I can appreciate where Microsoft was going with this UI, they really blew it in the end. This is one of the most useless search UIs I have ever used. The AJAXness (I just made that word up I think) of the page actually hurt more than it helped. There is no vertical scrollbar accept for that unusable double arrow on the right, you can’t use normal functions in the browser such as find or back, and there is no clear visual way to tell how far you have gone through the search results. I think the discussions on the search results compared to Google might as well be put on hold until Microsoft figures out how to display the results in a useable manner.

The ZDNet Article “Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes” forgets to mention that the people were given local user accounts on the server. This was not hacked over the internet like ZDNet would lead you to believe. So far all of the “hacks” that have been publicized for OS X in the past couple of weeks rely on the user to enter a password before anything happens. Nice.