Tales of Hoffman

Worst. Phishing Attempt. Ever.

Actual E-mail. Received by my Actual Wife:

Dear customer [wife's first name] Hoffman,

Greetings!

Thank you for using our services. We are happy to inform that our servers were succesfully upgraded!

Because of the large ammount of major changes in our site, you will have to setup our certificated CareerBuilder software (click here) to able to continue using our site

If you will not install it till 23th january, you will not be able to use our database.

Thank You for Your Cooperation.

You do not need to reply this mail. It is a newsletter

Support Team

Um....typos? Uh....."certificated"? Great work guys.

Kodak Gets Feisty

You never know the provenance of stuff that shows up on YouTube, but according to the person that posted this, it's a video created for internal use at Kodak and they got such a good response to it, they decided to release it into the "wild." Pretty funny (especially the knock on "advantix" about mid-way through). Enjoy!

Macworld Prediction

I'm sure this won't exactly send ripples through the Internet, but I may as well preserve my thoughts for posterity before the news comes out (so I can either gloat or whine tomorrow).

I've read all the online predictions and the one I'm going with is a line of Apple-Branded flat-panel LCD HD TVs with all the necessary guts to run Apple's "Front Row" software (that plays music, movies, photos, etc.) including the necessary wireless connectivity. So it will have the equivalent of a Mac Mini inside, but I don't think it will run full-blown OSX...just Front Row and the store.

This will open up the iTunes store (music and many many more movies/TV) to people who don't even have PCs, let alone Macs.

That's it...preserved for posterity.