Obligatory Windows 7 Post

I’ve been playing around with Windows 7 (build 7000) for a couple of days.
Microsoft bandies the “7″ quite handily, but that does not change the fact that this is Windows 6.1.  If Vista was the most important release since Win95, then 6.1 will be the most important bug fix since Win98.  I would have named [...]

Great Quote

“If you are going to judge your knowledge by the sort of collective standards of three hundred million people then don’t be surprised that you’re embarrassed.”
–Zbigniew Brzezinski
I got the quote from the following video, in which he gives Joe Scarborough a good dressing down.
Edit: Grr…couldn’t make the video embed.  Here is a link to the [...]

Is this what the Senate is coming to?

A 2 minute 16 second clip of Caroline Kennedy, can you count the “you know”s?  The senate is supposed to be the greatest deliberative body on the planet, I don’t think I could take this butchering of the language for the completion of the present term let alone 6 more years.

It [...]

KDE on Windows

I’ve been hearing about this project for quite some time…but I hadn’t heard how it was progressing in quite some time. Last I heard they had Amarok running but it did not actually play music.
Today I had some time to waste, and I stumbled across the KDE for Win website, so I gave it a [...]

Shadow as Reindeer (2004)

Shadow as Reindeer, originally uploaded by foggytown1.

Happy Christmas!!!

Nightmare Before Christmas

I wonder if GW feels guilt and/or shame as he lies awake at night…or is he a sociopath?