The current Mayan Countdown has us at 351 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided to spend some time looking for stories that we think show that something weird is going on.

The next Sign Of Doomsday: Adobe sales are up

It turns out, that Adobe sales were up in the 4th Quarter of 2011.  This was after a year of debacles that set-back Flash, Photoshop, and many of the screens in their open screen project (Google TV, Blackberry Playbook anyone?).  Earnings per share (the one metric that seems to excite Wall Street like no other) were up about 20%, and they were much higher than what investors thought they would be.  Profit was not up, but that was mostly because they had to pay about $100 Million in “restructuring charges” (read: severance pay) when they let 300 people go right after the Flash mobile announcement).

What was Adobe’s biggest business? according to them it was “”driven by strong performance in our digital media and digital marketing businesses”…not sure what those refer to though…possibly Omniture?

Is this good news for Adobe?  Or is this just another oddity on the way to world destruction?

Is the Quickening, er Doomsday coming?  Is this another sign?  Only 351 more days to go.  What else will happen in the coming days?

Tune in to find out.