In the beginning I was amazed by the spectacular voice of Amy Winehouse and so was a lot of other people. However, it appears that fame and fortune didn’t suit the young artist, and now she’s escaped into the world of drugs.  Marrying a drug addict sure didn’t help either I suppose…

You can watch Amy’s latest escapades in a short movie featured on the sun today. The title “Amy’s spiral of self-destruction” pretty much says it all.

I can’t see that the future looks to bright, and I don’t feel like buying tickets or CD’s when I know exactly where the money will go/disappear (up the nose) . Such a shame to see an artist destroy herself like that!

I just read some disturbing comments following the post Why Linux will not displace Windows over at the Education IT blog (ZDNet.com). If you have a few moments give the following comments a quick read:

• That wont work without THEFT of intellectual property
• It wont happen
• You are kidding arent you ?
• It wont happen

Even though these are all entered by the same person, it reveals the level of knowledge and experience among the common office employee (or lack of) I’m afraid. In my opinion many business owners are holding back on drastic changes like switching OS, as training costs would exceed the benefits of reduced license fees.

I hope the user (jerryleecooper) is just trying to start a discussion, and that he really isn’t this ignorant (airhead). Again, I do hope he’s kidding - seriously!

If you know of any others sharing his level of expertise, please share!! It’s Monday, I could use a good laugh

Mitaka is an application (software) for visualizing theoretical, computational, and observational astronomical data, developed by the Four Dimensional Digital Universe (4D2U) project of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Users can seamlessly navigate across the universe from Earth to the edges of the known universe.

Mitaka is optimized for 3D visualizations on multiple screens at the 4D2U theater in NAOJ’s Mitaka headquarters. However, it can also be used on a single Windows PC.

After reading the on-line tutorial for a few minutes, even my kids started exploring the universe. Fun and interesting was their response. Give it a try and download the latest release found a bit down on the front page. A few issues and suggestions are found in the FAQ.

Comedian/Film-maker Mark Malkoff’s New York City apartment had to be fumigated. All of his friends have tiny studio apartments. Hotels in New York are insanely expensive. Left with few living options, Mark thought it would be fun and make an interesting video to move into an IKEA store where he’d live and sleep for a week. Never in a million years did he think IKEA would go for it, but miraculously they have a agreed.

Mark moved in early morning Monday January 7th to the IKEA in Paramus, New Jersey and will stay for the week through Saturday January 12th. You can follow his daily routine on marklivesinikea.com.

Here’s some firework for you - captured in London last year…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!