Cute… According to SlashDot.Org, AutoDesk have purchased Alias|Wavefront, the company started by my friend Bill Kovacs. This is very interesting because AutoDesk already own 3D Studio Max, which was written by another friend of mine. So of the two professional computer graphics packages out there, and often used by movies and Hollywood, they now own both of them. [Ok, so the wording of that was clumsy… ]

BoingBoing has a link to The Winchester Mystery House Blog detailing the strange parts of the Winchester Mystery House in the San Francisco Bay area. This is a house that has had about 800 rooms in total. The former owner was slightly batty, adding rooms bit by but, and removing them and building others. She was a spinster who inherited the Winchester Rifle business.

And there were secret passages all over the place. The Seance room contains a room with two doors. One leads to a hallway, and the other leads to a kitchen, 8 feet below. Another staircase has 144 stairs and has 7 turns, to go from the first to the second floor. There was even a door leading to the outside of the house from the 2nd floor… Into nothing…

Anyway… Back to work… I have things to do… More programming… Less frivolity…