My Toddler, Beta Tester

I have an offer for you, Microsoft. Hire my toddler as a QA analyst.

She will find more hidden bugs and keyboard shortcuts than any PhD geek you got there in Redmond.

One of her favorite games is to come up from behind when someone is at the computer, slip up and start banging away on the keyboard. Or, hit the power switch on the front of the case and shut the whole thing down. And baby, XP will let that thing shut down hard.

I've noticed, however, that there is a hidden good in this baby anarchy. She finds keyboard shortcuts to do things I never would have dreamt. Some of the stuff I can't recreate. She did find a way to change the map perspective in my Civilization game, that one I've used quite a bit since.

She's teaching me to let go of prior notions and just give something a try.

Nigerian Pope?

Word on the street is that they're looking at a Nigerian cardinal as a possibility for the next Pope.

I can see it now: New Pope appears at the window in St. Peter's Square. Blesses the crowd.

Makes an announcement, "The Vatican Bank needs a place to park thirty million dollars. Just give us your account number, we will wire the funds to that account. After ten days, we will give you two million dollars. Bless you my children."