Who can bake me a file in a cake?

Also, this is just a couple of days late for the Blue Diptych thing. Damn.

You’ve seen this right?

Not being an Apple Whore like my buddy Dave2, I was really surprised about how excited I got about this mysterious iTablet iSlate iPad thingy before it got unveiled. I even told myself:

I’ll get one when it becomes available in Canada – Just for kicks. Heck, the last time I did something even remotely like that was when I stood in line 30+ hours to see the first showing of the Phantom Menace.

Alas, the more I followed the keynote, the less enthused I became about the giant iTouch.

Now, I’m just meh about it. I mean, I already have a laptop and an iPhone, and I can’t see myself carrying this thing on the bus or even in a pocket when I’m out for a walk.

What about you? What do you think?

Anybody else noticed a different login screen on your Windows 7 machine this morning? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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Just me?

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, “Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!”

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

“Don’t cry ‘wolf’, shepherd boy,” said the villagers, “when there’s no wolf!” They went grumbling back down the hill.

Later, the boy sang out again, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!” To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away.

When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, “Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don’t cry ‘wolf’ when there is NO wolf!”

But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.

Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, “Wolf! Wolf!”

But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn’t come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn’t returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.

“There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, “Wolf!” Why didn’t you come?”

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

“We’ll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning,” he said, putting his arm around the youth, “Nobody believes a liar…even when he is telling the truth!”

The morale of that story is that you shouldn’t lie. Obviously. People used to get this, and even find this cute. Heck they would even make that tale into a nice musical story, with a bassoon and everything.

But that was then.

I strongly believe that this story can’t be told this way in 2009 and within the new corporate reality. The updated version would have this extra bit:

The Boy who cried Wolf – The Corporate Edition

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Then the boy just ran back to the village, to his grandfather the village Chief, saying how the old man called him a liar and how that made him feel ashamed in front of everybody.

The village Chief decreeted that the old man was to be flogged within an inch of his life for bringing shame to his family.

And that’s why nothing gets done in the village: Because ever since that day, all the men spend their days running up and down that hill to avoid being flogged.

The new morale of that story is that it really doesn’t matter what you do or don’t do, as long as you know the person in charge. Obviously. I get it.

I didn’t go.

On a somewhat not really related note, iWeb aka my hoster’s hoster, is moving my blog to another server, and in the process has stored 2.1 Gigs of files from another website in my www folder. this is clearly above my 250Mb space allocation, so as a result I can’t upload any new pictures or update any of my plugins.

No post today. Move along.

I know you’re sad.