As I noted before, I'd attempted to thwart thievery in our break rooms at work with a little psy-ops warfare, namely posting closeup pictures of a mean looking eye above the creamer and sweet-n-low, which some lowlife scum has been swiping.

Well, that didn't work. Instead, the lowlife scum stole the posters. Or, possibly it may have been the cleaning crew. I don't know.

This brings me to part two - what else can The Eye achieve?

According to my brief and highly unscientific experiment, it can act as a coworker repellent. After setting up the little tableau below, far fewer darkened my door than had previously. Denizens of the marketing cubicle nearby said that there was a consensus that it was creepy and disturbing. Mission accomplished!

Supposedly, people are less likely to steal when they're feeling watched. Even if they're being watched by eyes printed on a piece of paper. I have no substantiation of this, as even with my mastery of the Google search, I couldn't find the article I'd read.

Nevertheless, being the intrepid experimentalist, I moved forward with my own 'all seeing eye' study, watching for the perpetrators of the massive theft of Sweet-n-Low, sugar and non-dairy creamer from our breakroom.

We shall see if this has any effect, and I will report my findings to you, my esteemed readers.

Update: My steely eye didn't even make it through the night. Clearly some humorless drone (or perhaps the kleptomaniacal parties themselves) removed it, intimidated by its stern gaze. Bastids. Wait until we install a real CoffeeCam. Then they'll be sorry. Muahahahahahahahaha.

While the Mac whore zealot was clearly awestruck by Apple's new MacBook Air, what with its svelte profile and light weight, not to mention complete lack of upgradability, less power and higher price than standard MacBooks... I was more interested in the latest iPhone firmware update that was also announced at yesterday's MacWorld Expo Stevenote.

First, those of us who aren't terribly interested in participating in the jailbreak arms race with Apple can now customize the home screen of the phone without installing new software and generally dicking around with things for very little benefit. So I can now banish the mostly useless Notepad and iTunes store to a second screen.

Furthermore, you can now save a web page as a widget directly on the home screen, which dovetails with Apple's philosophy of making iPhone development web-based rather than client based. I've got links to my Google calendar, Facebook, Newsgator and JiveTalk right up front.

iphone map

The other cool feature is Google's new mapping application, which while sucking less than it did previously, now catches up to Google's version for the BlackBerry and other handsets, with the inclusion of the Location button. By clicking on the little crosshair icon, the Gmap app will use cell tower triangulation to try and find your location. It's nowhere near as accurate as GPS, to be sure, but it's a handy feature, and seems pretty accurate

In the pic, we're only off by 50 yds or so. Not bad for those "where the f--- am I?" moments.

That's right, my shiny new iPhone is on its way from mainland China. In a mere weekend it'll be in my grubby little hands, and I'll be cursing it for it's BellSouth Cingular AT&T service.