{mosimage}Microsoft UK apparently commissioned Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to do a (spoof) training video with Gervais playing David Brent.



The two videos which run for 20 minutes and 17 minutes, respectively, were made in 2004 and have recently been leaked onto the Internet. Microsoft said they were never intended for public consumption and are trying to find the source of the leak.



Anyway, check 'em out below, they're on Google Video. It's like watching a missing episode of The Office.

{mosimage}Apple released three new Mac Ads, which were shown on American TV during the 58th Emmy Awards.


Check out the Accident, Angel / Devil and Trust Mac.

I was surfing the net looking for code on how I might write an app that takes advantage of Apple's Remote that ships with all new Macs. I stumbled across RemoteBuddy and the rest is history.

RemoteBuddy gives you the ability to control the rest of your computer via the Apple remote control. It also includes a creation kit for making new "behaviours" ie. your own customed remote features for any app or part of the Mac. I gotta say, I'm excited. My mate, Oddbod said, "RemoteBuddy is buddy brilliant!"

I can't wait to start making my own customized Action Pack.

{mosimage}Check out Redcape Cinema's 40 minute movie called Wonder Woman: Balance of Power.



Whilst not as good as Grayson (Best Fan Film/Trailer Ever), it has some interesting techniques and rather good special effects. The film was created to be used as a showcase for the filmmaker and it's talents.


Woman Woman, Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent and Lex Luthor ... See it for yourself here.

The Haiku OS project turns 5 today. Back in August 2001, Michael Phipps "founded" the open source replacement for BeOS, called OpenBeOS, on the mailing list.

In 2004, the name was changed, in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks (now owners of BeOS). The new name was influenced by an official community vote and was then revealed at WalterCon, the US-based Haiku annual conference.

Five years on and Haiku now boots on real hardware to an accelerated desktop. It can run many R5 applications, has a network stack in post-alpha (soon to be beta), and can performed tasks via USB that R5 could only dream of. It's stability increases week by week and should be capable of replacing R5 and going beyond in the not too distant future.