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MyDoom.A versus SCO group (1 – 0) (the website was knocked out completely. This will probably continue till the 12th Feb until the code stops working, unless they figure out a really reeeeeeeeeeeaally smart way to get around this).
Tomorrow’s match: MyDoom.B versus Microsoft. How much on who are you betting ?

Update 03-02-2004 10.53 : The dumbest country of the world still hasn’t come online yet, but it looks like the microsoft websites are still running ! Better find a way to earn myself 10 euros fast.

Update 03-02-2004 18.53 : 3 Feb all around the world. Also past 9 a.m. everywhere, the brainless typists are already at work. But… the microsoft sites are still working like a breeze. Guess I lost my monthly salary to a lousy bet.

Well, life is going well in Israel, Egypt, Iraque and the other countries in that neighborhood, so let’s nominate some people for the Nobel Prize for Peace 2004. Bush en Blair !!! Why not let them team up and give them a hip name, like B-Squared or something ? Naah, just kidding. People think it’s weird, but they forgot they were actually nominated in 2002 already ! The nominators must’ve thought that the world must’ve progressed a lot since then.

Ever wondered how long a succesful relationship can last ? Till the money question pops up, of course. Steve Jobs wants more money this time, so his Pixar Studios has broken off their 10 year long relationship with Disney. This year’s The Incredibles, and next year’s Cars, and then it’s over. No Toy Story 3, no Monsters Inc 2, nor will there be a Finding Nemo 2. Well, maybe there will be, but it will be done a bit more differently, that’s for sure (most of the creativity comes from the Pixar Studio guyz, let’s be honest).

A very slow week at the box office due to the Super Bowl. With $16 million on number one is You Got Served, a hip-hop comedy. Second is Along Came Polly with $10.1 million. Third is The Butterfly effect with $10 million. A not so flattering 42% drop from last week.
Big disappointing openers are The Perfect Score (starring Scarlett Johansson) at the fifth place with $5 million and The Big Bounce (a Hawaiian comedy starring Owen Wilson and Charlie Sheen) on nr. 10 with $3.3 million.

If you’ve got too much time on your hands, you can surf you butt to Superbowl Ads and watch some of the most expensive advertisements ever. Currently, the 2004 ads are playing live, so only the previous years can be seen (click the year, then chose video). This year, a freakin’ $2.3 million will buy you a 30-second spot. Then again, it’s not that much if you consider you reach 135 million viewers at once, and a big chuck of that is only watching for the ads, not for the football itself !

Melissa Etheridge’s new single Breathe marks the upcoming release of her album Lucky in February. Somehow dropping off the radar early nineties, I think this is the comeback we’ve been waiting for (having released many albums since her poppy entrance in 1989). Judging from just this single, the current rockier style mixes better with her heavy voice (I think she doesn’t shy away from few packs of cigs every day), bringing out more power and subtlety. With the vulnerable lyrics, it’s a combination noone can ignore (‘cept if the volume of your radio is set too low, you might think a guy is singing).

Many regard him as the devil, others as an ubernerd. But to Queen Elizabeth of the UK, he is a real sir. Under a special rule, non British can receive an honorary knighthood (like before him, Steven Spielberg and presidents Bush and Reagan), and that’s what Bill Gates is gonna get. For his many contributions to the UK enterprise, employement and charity.
Ah well, I already called him sir anyway (let’s face it, without him I’d probably still be an unemployed lazy student).

Inspired by a true story. NOT ! Inspired by a bored screenwriter is more like it. The usual hack and slash watch out you dumbass behind you no don’t hide _in THERE_ run harder movie. The movie drags on and on and on. With not that many victims to start out with, you can only imagine the massacre. That of my braincells that is.
The only positive thing is of course hotty Jessica Biel. But I’d rather have skipped this one and seen Blade: Trinity (coming late this year) instead.3.