Check out this hilarious short–great therapy!

CNN International included this amusing caption to the feed of Tony Blair’s resignation call….close enough I guess…

So Conan did his first San Francisco roadshow last night downtown at The Orpheum. And we loved it. And of course by “we”, I mean those bastards that actually got tickets for the show. Not me. I dutifully filled out the form at NBC weeks ago when he made the announcement. I got my friends to fill out the form. Near as I can tell, nobody I know scored a ticket.

I don’t know what to say about this. I don’t know where it came from. But Will Ferrell has taken the spot in my world formerly held by Bill Murray–the guy who can make me laugh just by showing up.

So here’s The Landlord – Enjoy!

If the embedded movie doesn’t work for you (or show up properly) head over to funnyordie to watch it there!

I provided a small bit of help to a talented friend setting up her back-end….no wait, that would be website back end…for a new blog. She thanked me by giving me a “part” in her first posted cartoon on the site. I wish I could draw…

Check out Carole’s art and thoughts on LittleCarotte.com. I look forward to seeing more!

I decided early on to put together an Oscars pool for my new co-workers. Most of them are serious cinematics. So I picked a dozen categories and went in search of a Web 2.0 solution for running the pool. Googling “office pool” brought me piles of links to betting sites. There seemed to be several sites hardwired for NFL weekly pools. But I had a really tough time finding a service that would give me some flexibility to do something besides a sports pool.

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Tell me this isn’t awesome. You really need to spend more time on YouTube

I never really got into the Second Life thing. I went there, I tried on a body, walked into a few trees. But the time it takes to learn how to have sex was evidently beyond my attention span so I didn’t go back (And that’s different than my First Life how?). ANYWAY, the virtual world has been getting a bunch of attention lately, including cover status on the current issue of Inc. Magazine. With folks like IBM saying they plan to drop $10 million into establishing a presence there and other companies setting up shop it seems to have reached the tipping point corporate-wise. And perhaps for its personal users too, as their number reportedly doubled in just the last few months.

I spent the day at Macworld today so you didn’t have to. No, no. No thanks are needed. It’s just who I am.

I made the trek into The City with several goals in mind: I wanted to talk to the Quickbooks guys about the issues in moving from Windows to Mac; to talk to the QB and FileMaker Pro guys about ways to move data back and forth between those apps; to check out some project management packages, see the Leopard and Microsoft Office 2008 demos, and to see how close I could get to the iPhone.

Are you sick of reading about the iPhone yet? I’m planning on trekking into The City tomorrow and hope to get a first hand look, but spent plenty of time last night reading the specs, watching the keynote video and going through the flash presentation that Apple posted. After the first blush of excitement several questions popped up that will require some answers between now and June when this puppy actually goes on sale.

Here’s my short list:

Steve walks out onto the auditorium stage, set just as the Moscone Hall will be on Tuesday, though the crowd today is only 2 people instead of thousands. He walks over to the stool in midstage and cracks open the water bottle sitting there. He takes a drink while he imagines the cheers from the crowd on Tuesday.

“Welcome!” The crowd cheers in his mind are still so deafeningly loud that he is sure nobody heard him. He raises his hands to quiet the crowd, waits a moment, and then again says, “Welcome!”

You know you love them. Those wonderful little stories of people proving Darwin’s claims of the survival of the fittest by opting out of the human race through shear stupidity. It seems to me that this year’s list is a bit darker than previous ones, however. The original winner was disqualified. The First Runner Up actually seems to fit the bill nicely, however…