This sucks, I've been extremely busy these past 2 days that I haven't even had the chance to visit Neowin.net , my primary source for industry news. This was mostly attributed to screw ups by one of my subordinates who made some major mistakes in his code which I had to edit as I was auditing it. Then it was an all day cycle of appraisals that I had to perform. I missed out on the news about the free giveaway offer of the DivX create suite. Not that I had an imminent need for a DivX encoder...
I remember a fairly simple card trick performed by David Copperfield where he used to flip through an entire stack of cards with the front face facing towards the camera. The point of the trick was that he could accurately predict which one you picked. What this meant in a more grandeur fashion is that he made millions of watchers pick a card which he wanted them to choose, in magic speak – “Mind Control”. The trick was so darn simple yet so accurate that if you saw without reading any further your...