Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2

Cool Tool: New File Sync Power Toy On the Horizon

Those Tablet PC Podcaster Guys (James Kendrick and Marc Orchant) mentioned an upcoming Cool Tool on The Tablet PC Show #18. Tablet PC Podcaster Guy #1 highlights Chris Pirillo's blog post about the arrival of Synctoy, a new powertoy that will apparently ease the process of syncing files between multiple computers.

Tablet PC Memory Leak Fix Is Now Available On Windows Update

Lora on WhatIsNew points out that the Tablet PC Memory Leak Fix is now available via Windows Update.

Podcast: The Tablet PC Show #18 Is Live

Those Tablet PC Podcaster Guys (James Kendrick and Marc Orchant) are at it again. The Tablet PC Show #18 is now live. Show notes and download are available here. Looks like another good one.

Cool Tool: InkyBoard For Tablet PC

Charlie Cassidy has come to my rescue. He had created a wonderful Tablet PC app, Inkyboard. Inkyboard is a simple whiteboard like app that allows you to sketch, annotate, or work over other files and then save your creations.

I used the app quite frequently to move furniture and scenery pieces on ground plans once I scanned the ground plan into my Tablet PC. I would then bring the ground plan into Inkyboard as a background make whatever changes I wanted, saving the new file into OneNote for distribution among the staff.

There was a bug that developed in 1.6 that caused the program to cease working with OneNote but the latest version fixes that like a charm. Charlie posted an updated link to the new download on Tablet PC Buzz.

Yeah Charlie! Anyway here’s a link to the Inkyboard webpage, a link to the thread on Tablet PC Buzz and here’s a direct link to the download.

Hollywood Ponders The Future

Via Newsweek and MSNBC

Interesting article on Newsweek here about how Hollywood is pondering the future given this summer's huge drop in sales. All kinds of ideas floating about including turning movie theatres into mini-entertainment centers, different food choices, merchandising, simultaneous releases over cable/satellite with film openings, etc...etc....

Here's a hint. Make good movies.

Great Tutorial On Scanning Books Into A PDF On Your Tablet PC

Tracy at The Student Tablet PC has put together a great tutorial/how to for scanning books into a pdf on your Tablet PC. Here’s the link.

More From Hilton Locke On Windows Vista And App Compatibility

Hilton Locke posts more about app compatibility (or is it incompatibility) with Windows Vista Beta 1. He actually seems quite entertained by some of the workarounds needed to test certain apps with the new beta. Here’s a quote:

If this keeps up, Windows will just be an environment that runs Virtual PCs. We'll have Petahertz CPUs with Petabye storage, in a package that you can clip to a lanyard (a la WMA players) all just so that we can run Virtual PCs hosting old Windows. 

Sometimes I crack myself up...

Here’s the link.

Get Ready To Laugh: Star Wars Episode III The Backstroke Of The West

Ok, today has been a silly day on many levels and this takes the cake (or should I say this puts the crunchy bacon in the ice cream... never mind.) Apparently Jeremy at Winterson.com stumbled onto a Chinese bootleg of Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith and picked up a copy. What he discovered is the subtitles which have been re-translated from the Chinese dub of the film are, let's just say very funny. Or to quote Jeremy, "it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being 'far, far away.'"

Numerous folks have commented that the translated translations are better than Lucas' script. So, if you're if you're up for a laugh, follow the link and enjoy.

Because I Can: Some Interesting Escapades In Doing It Because, Well, Because They Can

Here’s a series of links that caught my eye in the last day or so that amuse, bemuse, and confuse. They lead to some interesting photos and videos that prove just because you can do something doesn’t neccessarily make it a good idea to do so. There’s the occasional filthy word uttered so if that offends you, be warned.

Extreme Ice Cream?

Via MSNBC and The Washington Post.

Ok, I'm a fiend for ice cream. Love it. Way too much. But this story in the Washington Post made me gulp.

Apparently at The Udder Delight Ice Cream House you can taste some interesting flavors. Let's see there is:

• Chunky Bacon
• Memphis Barbeque
• Cackalackay Spice Sauce
• Cappuccino Stout Beer

The owner has also tried out Mushroom/Pecan, Mushroom/Pumpkin, Pear/Green Tea and is still searching for a Crabcake, and he's even tried a flavor called Viagra!