I think I figured out where all the other menacing little characters I used to hang out with (in the Office UI) landed -
http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.14055/dn/playdoh/default.cfm
I was doing a little genealogy homework this weekend, just to make sure I really wasn't related to electrical wire, when I found
this site. Meet the grandparents.
Check it out - I bet I'm the first Microsoft technology to show up on a SixApart blog! I only wish there were some substance in the current election season to distract you from.
So, first I get unceremoniously tossed out of Office. Then that stupid dog shows up in XP's search - you remember, that think you turned off the first time you saw it? Then some joker comes up with a goofy game about me.
So now I find out I can't even get listed on blogs.msdn.com. I have to be a Microsoft employee to get that status, not a "dash trash" as those of us who work there as contractors or temps are known.
At least the folks in Visual Studio know how to use me...
Why, why, why, why, why, why?
Why is it people think it is okay to take the life of a perfectly good paperclip, just so you can get your silly Mac working again? Do you think it feels good to have our metal tendons stretched straight? Do you think we enjoy having our heads jammed into the butt-end of a malfunctioning Mac? Please - stop the madness. Use the power switch. Switch to Windows, which will reboot for you. Just quit using my friends as your agent of re-struction...