25 Aug, 2007
以下片段发生在巴尔默在接受一家杂志采访的时候:
In an interview with Effective Corporate Evildoings magazine, a sweat-soaked Ballmer was chatting about how open source is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches when he went to pull up a website to prove part of his point. The interviewer, Gern Blanston, moved around to Ballmer's side of the table to view the website Ballmer wanted to show him when he was taken aback by Ballmer's choice of web browser and home page.
"I was shocked to the point that I passed a wee bit of a toot. It made me feel not-so-fresh for the remainder of the interview," Blanston recalled.
When asked about his choice of internet platforms, Ballmer mentioned that the browser came pre-loaded on his Dell Laptop and he couldn't figure out how to uninstall it, change the homepage, or find where IE was.
大意是巴尔默在接受采访时不小心被记者发现他在使用firefox和google，在记者的追问下，巴尔默辩解说firefox是戴尔的笔记本预装的（强烈怀疑），而且他也不知道如何卸载firefox，更改他的主页，还找不到ie在哪里（晕倒）。
对这个"无厘头"的解释，一网友评论到:
再仔细一看,更为大惊失色的是 他用的即时通讯软件居然是
腾讯QQ。
更多精彩看这里。
20 Aug, 2007
火星文，脑残体
定义：用符号、繁体字、日文假名、冷僻字等非正规汉字符号系列组合的文字，像是乱码或或者错字，用法也不同于汉语规范，字面上无法了解它的意思。但是通过仔细揣摩，火星文表达出对应汉语的意思，只是表达方式极其随意。
使用人群：年轻人，主要是90s
使用场合：网络游戏，以QQ为主的IM
１切斗４幻ｊ，↓ｂ倒挖ｄ！（一切都是幻觉，吓不倒我的!）。这些人不人鬼不鬼的符号（才疏学浅，没见过此等文字）就是所谓的火星文，脑残体。从定义来看，火星文和上世纪80年代在bbs里出现的"leet"有很多相似之处：
Leet (written as 31337, 1337, and l33t), or Leetspeak, is a written form of slang (technically an argot) used primarily on the Internet, but becoming increasingly common in many online video games, which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace proper letters. The term itself is a degenerative form of the word "elite", and the language it describes resembles a highly specialized form of electronic shorthand.
Leet originated within bulletin board systems in the 1980s, where having "elite" status on a BBS allowed a user access to file folders, games, and special chat rooms, often including archives of pirated software, pornography, or text files documenting topics such as how to construct explosives and manufacture illegal drugs. It was primarily developed to defeat text filters created by BBS or Internet Relay Chat system operators for message boards to discourage the discussion of forbidden topics, like cracking and hacking. Once reserved to use by hackers, crackers, and script kiddies, Leet has since entered the mainstream. It is now also used to mock newbies, or newcomers, on web sites, or in gaming communities.
火星语似乎只是为了显示使用者的酷，拽，没什么实际的用途和意义，70s和80s们大可不必着急上火，吵吵嚷嚷的让火星语绝迹，因为主流语言还是汉语，地球语，胳膊是拧不过大腿的。
3v3ry7h1n6 7h47 h45 4 b361nn1n6 h45 4n 3nd (Everything that has a beginning has an end) -- Matrix
18 Aug, 2007
Google Trends的数据表明，三大游戏主机中，最吸引眼球的是任天堂的wii(橘色)，其次是SONY的ps3(红色)和微软的xbox360(蓝色)。
世界范围内，xbox360的搜索量和引用量都远远低于wii和ps3，像比目鱼一样平滑的贴在谷底。
美国人似乎更喜欢wii，ps3和xbox都没有什么起色。
在日本，ps3和xbox360都收到了更多的关注，但是xbox360和前两名的差距仍然明显。
在中国情况有了变化，xbox360和ps3的搜索量不分伯仲，连走势都几乎一样，但两者都远远低于wii。值得一提的是，上海对于wii的关注远远超过了其它城市，排在第二位的北样偏高，外两头两棵可能刚种植不久，显得略矮。它们的棕叶聚生于顶,发散得近乎松弛。内侧两棵绿色棕树之间是灰色偏暗京，搜索量仅仅是上海的一半。
Technorati : 游戏主机
"...he couldn't figure out how to uninstall it, change the homepage, or find where IE was."
And here we can see how user friendly Windows really is...