Posted 9:38 PM by Gene

Tonight I allowed myself to have the Bugmeister entertain me with a sales pitch for his NEW! IMPROVED! XP -- er, VISTA. Some of the apps look neato, but it's clear they might be done through other means. He shows of the flippable pages of priceless manuscripts at the British Museum -- and when you click on the site you find you can do it with Shockwave! (Although the effects may not be as neato.) We don't suppose the BILL GATES Codex Leicester has anything to do with it, huh? Fortunately SUMNER has the right idea -- to use His TurboNick you HAVE to HAVE VISTA! But this would seem to limit His audience -- and it will be awhile till lots of parents and kids have the OS, whatever its WOW FACTOR. (Maybe this brilliant idea is one reason TurboNick's parent is laying off several hundreds, n'est-ce pas? But then Pinch wants to charge for His Paper of Re-CORD Reader -- and darnit if that isn't XP-compatible! What gives here?) But really, is zooming in an out of pictures of NorthFace gear that exciting? And how practical will 3D illustrations in Word documents be outside CAD/CAM -- and maybe GRAPHICAL NOVELS? One suspects Bug knows he's selling an old wine in new bottles -- which might explain why His stock has gone down every day since Vista's official release. Second bubble, huh?