3D Realms released an all new teaser trailer for Duke Nukem Forever. Yay.
How about releasing an all new GAME?
Update Wired released their annual Vaporware awards, and Duke Nukem Forever has taken first place for the 5th time (2001, 2002, 2005, and 2006), with a life-time award in 2003, an unofficial possible win in 2004, and a slow start in 2000 with a 2nd place.
Tags: duke nukem, Games, trailer
I ran into a problem with Outlook the other day. Someone sent me a message, that was a forwarded message from someone else. Only, the forwarded message was attached, instead of quoted. And Outlook refused to open the message. Double-click, Right-click & Open, Right-click & Save, nothing worked (although Save gave me a beautiful .msg file – that Outlook refused to open).
After searching the Internet for a couple of days, seeing all kinds of references to security levels and warning messages (that I didn’t get – Outlook didn’t give a peep hen trying to open the message), I gave up – I only get one or two attached messages a month, and most of them are jokes.
It got annoying however when I decided to use the GTD Outlook Plug-in. In this plug-in, you have the capability to attach several messages to a Task. The message that initiated the Task is quoted in the task description, and subsequent messages are attached. I couldn’t open these attachments, and to make things worse, the GTD Plugin moved the messages that I attached to an undisclosed location, so I couldn’t find these messages anymore!
So, back to searching the Internets. I finally came across this message on Tutorials Win. It described a similar problem with Outlook 2007 (I’m still using 2003), and said that Google Desktop was to blame. That made sense: a couple of days ago Windows Vista informed that Google Desktop had unexpectedly quit. The forum post suggested disabling the indexing of Outlook, but for me, the only thing that worked was completely uninstalling Google Desktop.
Everything works fine now, I can access my attached email messages again. I’m sure I’ll miss Google Desktop, though…
Tags: attachment, desktop, email, google, outlook
Terry Pratchett has revealed in a letter on the website of artist Paul Kidby that he is suffering from a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease.
Pratchett is probably most famous for his Discworld series, where a parallel world, carried by 4 huge elephants standing on an enormous turtle named Great A’Tuin, has more than a passing resemblance to our own world.
In his announcement letter he proves he hasn’t lost his sense of humor:
I know it’s a very human thing to say “Is there anything I can do”, but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
He still has a couple of books in him, and I look forward to them with more anticipation than ever before. God bless, Terry.
I came across this little game, which tests your knowledge of countries, capitals and noteworthy locations around the world, and determines your Traveller IQ. Have fun!
This Traveler IQ
challenge is brought to you by the Web’s Original Travel Blog
According to MacNN, Apple is set to raise the prices on downloadable movies in iTunes to $15, just a couple of dollars below the retail price of a physical DVD. This means that for $3 more, you can order the same movie, without DRM, with extra content, in a nice box, and probably in better quality.
It is suggested in the article that the studios are under pressure from retailers such as Wal-Mart. Which basically means that old-style retail is trying to hold on to their distribution model, and forces the new-style retail to mimic their inefficiencies… I hope Apple will come up with something else, especially now that there are serious indications on the music side that the old model is failing (EMI scaling back funding of the RIAA, more and more DRM-free music).
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