Congratulations to the winner of the first ever Prose Before Hos Award for Valor in the Face of Courage, Greg StiflyStiferson. Let us recount the story of Greg’s story before we lubricate his body with praise and store-brand massage oil.

It was a fine Spring day working as an Americorp volunteer as Greg trudged through hours of thankless work in post-Katrina New Orleans. As a white European colonizer in this foreign land, Greg expected booty and treasure, including but not limited to access to local colored women and raiding the medicine cabinets of abandoned houses.

A lot has happened today in the Macintosh universe, as Steve Job’s delivered his keynote address and announced lots of new things, including Intel-based iMacs and MacBooks. This ushers in a new era at Apple, making the era of PPC computing with G4’s & G5’s not quite irrelevant, but certainly in the rear view mirror.

One thing that has not been extensively addressed is the promise from Microsoft to provide Macintosh support for the next five years. This means most likely new versions of Windows Media Player and Office (though Internet Explorer development was halted recently.

Though I’ve been making a concerted effort to do things like study and fulfill my duties as the assistant copy chief here at the Pitt News instead of spiraling further into music nerd-dom (lest I end up penniless and forced to build myself a crude shelter out of my copies of Sonic Youth side projects and Captain Beefheart LPs), I did finally pick up the The White Stripes’ new record.

PBH was launched August of this year, and since the beginning, has been in development in terms of content, design, and accessibility to the public. One of the primary developments of the past month was to institute advertisements so that, since used as a public forum, the hosting and domains could be covered without having to dip in the management’s pockets.

The answer was found in GoogleAds. It is the most popular advertisement program, had been strongly recommended by professional blogging sites, has the most depth and variety of advertisers, and seemed to be the most adept at figuring out the way to successfully target ads based on content of web sites (termed contextualizing).