My account log showed an access from http://msdewey.ca/. So I went there to have a look. The site is Flash -- all Flash. Oh dear.

The person I found listening to music (non-white earphones, note) is, I presume, Ms. Dewey. She's bad-mannered, has a short attention span, talks on the phone, looks very bored, threatens me, stares at me a lot, and if I wait long enough does this weird super-villain laugh. It's freaky.

Oh, and it's a search engine. I type in penguins. Wait wait wait while she thinks and then talks (about nothing to do with penguins). And then some results come up:


Over two million hits! And no scroll bars. This is going to be interesting.

The URLs are not clickable. The text that falls off the right is not readable. But the titles in blue are, and sure enough I get a page about penguins. But it is in a new window, and so she is still talking. Scrolling is actually possible: putting the cursor in the fuzzy area at the bottom causes the text to scroll, but it gets stuck at times and there is no way to tell how far I have gone or have to go.

I notice a faint copyright in the bottom right: 2006 Microsoft Corp. Ah, I understand now. It's marketing. Your tax dollars at work.

Tags: Microsoft, Google, Video