For you windows users

OK, this screen saver looks amazing, but it’s only for Windows… it blows everything on your desktop with a digital wind that correlates to whatever the wind conditions are in your home city:

http://scr.sc/products/kazetodesktop/

My only question is… how does this “save” energy on your screen? It’s $8 if you want to buy it, but you can download a trial… naturally, in traditional windows style, it caused an exception when I tried to run the program and I had to end the task, probably because I don’t have the .net framework 1.1 (or maybe I do, I thought I did…). When will you windows programmers learn to work together!

It’s funny what happens sometimes when programs fail in Windows…I used a PC at work for part of one of my last projects with Illustrator, and this is what happened:

It basically filled the entire screen with black copies of what I was working on and all of the tool bars turned white with a black outline. To be fair, I couldn’t actually do what I was doing on the MAC either, but that computer just showed the pinwheel moving and nothing happened. This also makes me wonder… why am I able to attempt operations that my computers can’t perform? Both computers are very fast, so it’s not even the computer’s fault…I guess it’s probably just an Adobe error. (I was trying to blend two live-traced images of really high resolution with 500-steps…just try to do it…go to object>blend>blend options, then select the two objects and go to object>blend>blend)