I was reading /. today, (can’t remember what the subject was, but it isn’t really important), and a poster was portraying Microsoft as evil and google as honest, true, good and all American. Now, I know Microsoft has been persona non grata on the /. since before time began, but how is it that google isn’t at least equally evil? All they want to do is index our lives and sell it back to us one piece at a time. At least when Microsoft was the main corporate overlord in the computer industry, we had some pretence of privacy.

Next up was the bedroom. I have a two bedroom flat, but I use the larger of the two as my computer room/office. Basically my computers need more room than I do.

If the blinds were open, you’d be able to see The Company’s Sydney corporate headquarters. That isn’t the reason I closed them though! If I opened them then I wouldn’t have been able to take a photograph.

Notice how you can see the floor, and the top of my dresser. Things I found packed away today was another smaller chest of drawers (yes, I apparently had an entire piece of furniture that I hadn’t unpacked, after over a year after moving in), and my soccer trophy. When I was five I was a member of the Purple Rockets, the only team in the league to win all of its games. I contributed primarily in my ability to out pick the opposing team in terms of dandelions.

Hanging over my bed is my favourite picture of rust. Yes. I have a favourite picture of rust.

So, speaking of phones, I just watched this ad where Dustin Hoffman is trying to talk to someone on a mobile about not buying a house at any price (the message that goes through is that the person on the other end should buy the house at any price). Dustin is upset over the miscommunication, and someone tells him, “This wouldn’t happen in Australia.”

It’s a Telstra ad, and I don’t think they are any worse than any other large corporation, but it made me laugh because my first thought was, “yeah, everything is better in Australia.”

...even though the example they actually cited wasn’t a very good one.