I am putting together a site for country singer G.L. Williams. I have been listening to two of his CDs for about 7 hours now, editing songs for online clips, etc. Really good stuff. The site should be live by Monday. I’ll link to it when it’s done.

It was sort of chilly this afternoon, so I went outside for a while. About 30 minutes later, a cold wind picked up. In less than two minutes, the sky darkened as a massive storm cloud formed over head. One small rain drop, two, three… all of a sudden, a total barrage of hail came down. The street was covered in hail pellets. I ducked under a shelter and listened to the hail assault the thin roof. Moments later the hail gave way to a powerful rain. A minute passed, the rain stopped, the hail melted and I went home.

I know this may seem like I’m belittling these guys, but check out this short video clip for a get-rich-quick plan advertized on TV. The full-length infomercial is 30 minutes long, but I’ve truncated it for those with short attention spans.

Approx. 1.5MB – Windows Media file – works in Windows & Mac

Just in time for the real Easter, I found an easter egg (or just a total screw-up by some programmer at Intuit) in the new program, QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.0.

When you install the program, you can watch (or play later) the how-to Flash tutorial. I was looking for my QBCM2 database file in the C:\Program Files directory and I spotted the Flash file (launch.swf) that runs the tutorial. I opened it and expected to watch the tutorial in a stand-alone window. That’s not quite what happened.

This is what the Flash tutorial looks like:

This is what you get directed to when you click on any of the QBCM links:

The Flash tutorial works fine when opened by the QuickBooks Customer Manager software or in a browser window, but freaks out if you open it by itself (which it should not do). Funny, huh?

P.S. It only seems to work (or not work?) if you have no browser windows open when you open the Flash file.