May Day

Happy May Day everyone!

Microsoft Live’s Customer Service Number

Apparently, like Amazon.com, Microsoft has a hidden customer service phone number for their (frankly awful) Office Live service. The number is:
866-591-5483

Enjoy

The Haul

One of the great pleasures of comic conventions is bringing home the haul of comics that you won’t find at your local comic shop. Here’s what I got at the New York Comic Con:

Virgin Comics given free at the Stan Lee Legend event:
The Stranded #1 by Mike Carey and Siddrarth Kotian
Ramayana 3392AD Reloaded: The Tome of the Wastelands by Depak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur
Ramayana 3392AD Reloaded Guidebook
Dan Dare #1 by Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine
Guy Richie’s Game Keeper (Groan)

Comics gotten at the actual convention:
Kickback by David Lloyd (beautiful new graphic novel from Dark Horse)
General Jack Cosmo and the Vampire Men of Kothos #1 and #2 by Aaron M. Shaps, Andrew Froedge and Gabe Pena
Barren Soil #0 by Chris Wozniak
Ill-Conceived by Tj May and Shelton Bryant
Contract #0 by Garen Madeiros, Charles Shell and Kevin Sharpe
Mala Noche by Gary Champ and Luis Sierra
Bitter Midgets and the Marauders from Galaxy X by Chris Wozniak
Justice for Hire by Jan Lucanus and Jan C. Childress (came with live-action martial arts DVD)
Soleil by Arune Singh
HorrorWood by Brandon Terrell and Brent Shoonover
The Dreamland Chronicles Book One by Scott Christian Sava

Comics Legends Award

Up at Filthy Habits right now is my report on attending The New York Comics Legend Award and meeting Stan Lee.

The Savage Detectives

My girlfriend got my The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño for my birthyday, and I have to say so far it’s pretty damn amazing.

Doggies on Drugs

Over at Filthy Habits, find my review of the book Pretzel on Prozac: The Story of an Immigrant Dog.

Governor John

I like how all the reporting about Spitzer talks about him having “links to a prostitution ring” (following the New York Times’ lead, I think), as if this is a sophisticated corruption scandal like someone having “links to” the mob. When really, the guy is just a John.

Damnit

There doesn’t seem to be a better PDF reader (one that allows you to bookmark individual pages in a pdf) for even the jailbroken iPhone.

I guess I’m just going to have to make do with converting my PDFs to text with pdftotext and then using Readle to read them on my iPod.

Lame

SDK (not) released

Apple isn’t releasing the SDK to the public until June. June! To get it now you have to pay $100 to become a “developer”.

I’m so jailbreaking this Touch.

iPhone/iPod Touch SDK

So it looks like the SDK is probably going to be released on Thursday. I’ve been not unlocking my iPod Touch in anticipation of this, since I’d rather do things in the approved way and not risk bricking my device. However, there are some rumors floating around that the SDK to be released is going to be severely limited.

Hey Apple, listen up, I want two things:
1) The ability to move PDF’s to my iPod touch’s hard drive (and not just read them out of email or on a website) and read them and preferably bookmark individual pages so I can read ebooks on the device

2) A flash player for the device’s Safari

If you don’t give me these simple things on Thursday, I’m going to jailbreak my device.

That is all.