There's no way Microsoft is serious with this idea, right? Is this a little tough-in-cheek humor from a sleep deprived ad exec? Or just a parody? Please tell me it is.

How the hell do these four people know each other? That black dude looks like he standing a little too close to the chick according to other apparent Microsoft advertising policies. But it was the white dude that threw up a gang sign at the 6:13 mark.

Check out how judgmental the old lady is at the 2:40 mark. Priceless. "Oh... you went straight to an activity... well, if that's what you tramps are into nowadays..."

And seriously - do I want to know what the white guy's "third" activity was (2:58)? Judging by their reactions, it looks like the others already do. I thought the blond chick was going to shit herself when he said he did THREE activities.

I don't have quite enough data to prove it yet. But I'm positive that the Nike + website is using a simple PHP counter to represent the number of miles run by its members. THAT'S BULLSHIT!.

I first suspected it a few weeks ago when I visited their (crappy flash) site after Stephanie bought one of their trackers. As a web developer, I know that most objects on a website (images, flash, or otherwise) are named one way or another. It just so happens that Opera (a browser) displays the description entered by the coder when you hover your mouse over the object.

What did I see when I hovered my mouse over their mile counter? "UNIX time"

They are using UNIX epoch time's counter to pretend it's the number of miles that have been run by their subscribers!

I just did a website for a company that has a near-real-time stat of their members. And it's REAL. Not something made up by the developers of the website. That's lame Nike.

**UPDATE**
If you go to their site, and refresh the page, it starts at the same counter each time: 146,075,553.

I still think their using UNIX Epoch Time to increment the counter, but probably using some lame math function to A) reduce it (by a million), then B) randomize the start time within a 24 hour period.

Still really lame. Maybe more so than I even originally thought.

Bottom line, incrementing the alleged miles run by your subscribers every second via a non related script (even if the average might be close) ≠ factual representation.

Really Google? This is what you think I want to read?

I mean at the exact time this blog was posted. Nobody reading this, except maybe Viola (although that even seems unlikely), will ever see that again.

My neighbor found an old laptop of hers the other day and asked me if I could help in destroying any info "in the memory". She was worried that the wrong person might get their hands on the hard drive and use the information on it maliciously.

When she dropped if off today though, I had no idea how sweet of a machine it would be. It's a 1992 Apple Macintosh Powerbook 160.

Specs:

• 25 MHz Processor
• 10 in, 4-bit Grayscale monitor (first of its kind)
• 4 MB RAM
• 80 MB ROM (in this case upgraded to a whopping 160)

Awesome. But the real beauty is in the design. Look at that trackball! And, I don't think I got any good pictures of them, but there are two HUGE dials on the back that can be turned such that the back of the computer is elevated - presumably making the 63 key keyboard more ergonomic.

It's a thing of beauty. Be sure to check out the third picture in which I inadvertently captured my equally (or perhaps more) antiquated 8-bit NES system.