Was looking through the new additions to the “I’M A PC” videos and guess who just showed up, Bill Gates. In case you’re wondering what WHG3 means, his full name is William Henry Gates III. If you’ve submitted a video and is waiting for it to show up, I’ve heard they’re looking into it and user submitted videos should show up more often now.

Oh, and if want to embed a video like I have, head over to my PC video browser.

So you want to see all the “I’M A PC” videos but can’t bear the “video wall” on Microsoft’s website - where you can’t easily browse or link to videos - then you could write your own XML parser and viewer website, or you could use the one I prepared earlier (www.istartedsomething.com/pcview/).

Now you can share your favorite clips, like Tron Guy and weirdo who likes cheese.

Update: Added functionality to comment on each video.

Update 2: Added ability to embed videos.

Speaking of which, if you’re interested in seeing everyone at once, you can browse through the video wall XML file. You can even pick out who is a Microsoft employee by “msemployee”.

On 18th of February 2007, more than two years ago, I made and published this comic.

Today, Microsoft paid Crispin Porter + Bogusky $300 million to make this.

Come on, reckon at least a million right?

Live Mesh is great if you want to sync entire folders across computers and devices but doesn’t allow you to sync individual files - it’s all or nothing. Or should I say it did, because you see where there’s a will, there’s a way. The way Rafael and I have come up with will allow individual files to be Meshed without any additional software or background processes. It’s not perfect but it works.

Please note the following tutorial involves modifying your file system and may result in catastrophic data loss or corruption. Now harden up and try this at home.

As a quick explanation, there is no getting around the current Live Mesh restriction of folders. So what we need to do is work around the problem locally. A feature of the NTFS file system is support for “hard links“. What “hard links” allow you to do is have multiple pointers to the same “physical” file in the file system. (Quick side note, this is different to symbolic links which does not work with Live Mesh).

What hard links means in reality is that you can have multiples of the same file in different