In case you missed it, the GIF patent is dead after 20 years. Now you can encode as many GIFs as you like. Feel free to give Unisys the finger.http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,558,302.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302
Dead Letter Department
Read more 55-word story winners like this one by Alan Dolit in the New Times 55 Fiction Contest.
Well, this is exciting. I actually have a product to hawk now, so I can put to use some of the knowledge that I have gathered at work to promote myself.
My first stop: Search Engine Optimization. Basically, if someone is looking for the kind of product I'm selling, I want my product to appear on the first page of the search results of Google. Preferrably, near the top. And on all of the other search engines as well. But not necessarily for the name of my product.
In case you didn't know, I rather like astronomy. When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut, and I was routinely begging my dad to build a spaceship. Clearly, neither of those things happened.
My mom has always wanted to go north to see the aurora. I keep telling her that under the right conditions you don't have to go much farther than the rural country near here. And even if you did go far north, the aurora may not be as brilliant as you see in pictures, because they tend to overexpose the film in order to get some of the more fantastic effects.
I forgot that this program existed until just a few minutes ago, and when I searched for it on Google to recall the original publisher’s name (Fractal Design, remember?), I found that it had been bought and updated! Expression is a very cool vector-based paint program.http://www.creaturehouse.com