2005 December 07

Okay, now this has to be the strangest thing I've ever received by mail – and it's obvious that the sender wanted to remain anonymous. It was mailed to our old California address, so I can't imagine it's anybody around here – and I can't imagine it's anybody who knows me very well. It was sent Air Mail with an Australian stamp – no return address, no other identification. Inside was a printout for a book on Amazon: Your Dog is Watching You. The description:

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Posteriza enables you to create poster or banner size prints from your digital images. The program slices the images into multiple parts and makes them fit into a number of regular size pages (A4, A3, letter, etc.), which can then be assembled after printing. It automatically includes margins to overlap and glue the pages. In addition, you can add up to 4 lines of text, as well as a frame to enhance the looks. The program is easy to use, and offers easy configuration and previews of the results. You can create regular size posters, wall posters or anything in between, although you should use a high resolution image for larger printouts in order to produce quality results. The program can also save the output as JPG files, allowing you to use 3rd party printing services instead of your own printer…

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I hate to be the one to tell Microsoft that they wasted millions of dollars on their “Start Something” campaign, but as evidenced in tonight's report, these commercials are unapologetically generic. Let's just see what happens when we query Google for start something windows commercial and press the Lucky button? Oh my. That's bad.

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