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Well I think so anyway, and I’m not biased at all, even though it’s my design (ha ha ha…). For a sports shoe fiend like myself, NikeID is a great way to while away an hour or two. Since it launched quite a few years ago, I’ve had tremendous fun creating the ‘perfect’ colour combinations for the right shoe. I think this is one of my best.

Go ahead, design your own shoe and if you come up with anything good, let me know!

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My good friend Craig Hatting called me the other day to ask what programs he should download onto his new Macbook (which he won, lucky guy). I thought that this kind of information would help others, too, so I’ve decided to make a blog post out of it. Here are 10 Free Mac OS X applications I can’t live without (if you like them, please consider donating to the authors).

1. Gmail Notifier lets you check your mail without logging into Gmail
2. Adium allows me to keep in contact with all my MSN, Yahoo, AIM and Gmail Chat buddies, all in one program.
3. Quicksilver allows you to launch programs super fast, among other things
4. Notepad Widget allows me to write down all kinds of things that I need to remember in the dashboard.
5. TimeOut forces me to rest my eyes at certain intervals.
6. NetNewswire Lite is a newsreader that helps me keep up with my favourite web sites without having to visit them one by one.
7. Fetch Art automatically fetches all the artwork you don’t have for your music in iTunes
8. Firefox is my favourite web browser
9. NeoOffice is a Mac version of OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a free office application suite. There’s a spreadsheet, word processor, database, presentation program and more included.
10. Windows Media Player allows you to watch all those weird videos people send you in the mail.

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I stumbled across a very cool site today. It’s run by American car manufacturer Acura, and I think it’s designed as a promotion for their future concept cars. Anyway the site allows you to compose a message consisting of predictions for the future and then have that message sent to someone or yourself up to nine years later!

I’ve scheduled to receive a message from myself in early 2017 and have included my predictions for the future. I’ve removed the personal stuff, but here’s a few things I think will be in place in 2017:

• Western governments will have used the ‘war on terror’ as an excuse to instigate a police state.
• Almost every bit of communication will be monitored.
• Receiving this email will make you nervous.
• People will be cloned.
• Brain and body ‘enhancements’ will be very prevalent.
• Designer babies will be all the rage, and a genetic lower and upper class will be developing.
• A cure for HIV will have been found.
• Africa will be developing much better.
• The US will no longer be the dominant global power - the EU will be instead.
• People will be very environmentally aware.
• Global warming will continue to cause massive problems
• There will no longer be a Northern ice cap.
• The Internet will be/have been used as a tool to control the global awareness of certain issues.