In an "unprecedented crisis" not only were the World Bank's internal servers breached, but it happened for a long time and they didn't disclose it. I'm sure they're one of the most-hacked organizations in the world, but even still: come on people! At least give people some heads up so they can all rush to withdraw their money and collapse the economy of the galaxy...

I received this lovely folder in my box at work today. It's about "making IT green", a full-color fold-out, with multiple copies of the same poster, and a CD of even more marketing paraphernalia.

Windows Blue Screen of Death wins the #1 slot in the top Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time. Notable BSoD moments include the 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, and Bill Gates giving a Windows 98 demo.

A savvy geek perusing Microsoft's website for its new "I'm a PC" ad campaign pulled down some JPGs and looked at their meta data. Turns out they were produced on a Mac:

This was discovered by Flickr user LuisDS.

I can only assume the videos themselves were produced with Final Cut on Macs as well.

I'm penning this post from Google's new web browser "Chrome". So, far, I really like it. Seamless installation of the missing Flash plugin, good password manager, all my sites look OK in it, and it's got a fresh take on a number of things that I definitely appreciate.

But by far the coolest feature about Chrome is this Easter Egg:

Having been a web-developer since 1996 I can tell you one of the biggest pains-in-the-ass is getting layouts consistent cross-browser. Back then, we had to test on Netscape, IE, and AOL. Nowadays, things have seemed to settle on either Firefox or IE7.

Why can't we leave well enough alone people? Why do you need Safari? Why Opera? You don't! Just settle on IE7 or FF.