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Since I decided not to blog about work, I’ve found myself rather lacking in posting topics. Not that there aren’t blog worthy items around the office but what would it mean to you. Now that I think of it, what does this mean to you?

You know, I don’t want to slip into that blogging, death spiral where I only post about how I have nothing to say. Nor do I want to bitch about the minutia of my work life. I mean, who doesn’t have something to complain about?

Can I tell you something? Do we have that sort of relationship where I can trust you with something like I’m about to tell you? Here’s hoping…

I hate Microsoft. When I say hate, I mean I really hate Microsoft. I also suspect that my festering hate might have brought on a mental unbalance. Is unbalance a word? Should I use imbalance like someone who has a minimal grasp of the English language?

Vista is such a POS that it keeps me awake at night. Then I start to hear about the licensing restrictions that come with Vista. Now keep in mind that I have little desire to use Vista because it’s a POS and I don’t know what sort of blunt force trauma it would take to cause me to pay for it. Of course I haven’t paid for Windows since 1998 but that’s a whole other story…

Anyway, I’ve decided that I need to let go and try to get some balance in my computing life. So I installed Ubuntu. It’s simply wonderful! I had my first good nights sleep in months after I exorcised Windows from my home. Nothing but *NIX for me from this point on.

So that’s it. This should really end better. But it never ends well…

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I’m settling into a weekly posting schedule and I still have nothing of interest to say… With that being said, let’s begin.

I was chatting with the wife on the weekend and we were discussing all the stuff that we should be thinking about buying. Furniture, dishes, pots & pans, you know, domestic crap. She has it in her head that she’s going to buy all these Korean pots & pans and then bring them here. This likely is why she wants me to go to Seoul and pick her up…

Then she said it… “I want to get an LCD TV” Dear God… and here I was trying to come with ideas to slip that one past her. I figured that leaving large, open coffees on the TV would be a good start. “Hey MiHwa, whatta ya say we toss the old pig skin around? Wanna wrestle?”

[startTech] Tech squimish readers can now go away. “Thanks for visiting Biff!”

I’ve been testing [tag]Windows Vista[/tag] at work. It was my suggestion so I openly declare myself an idiot… Three days of attempting to get it to install finally culminated in the PC blue screening. I tried it on different machines, including a server class box, followed by [tag]VMware[/tag] and Microsoft’s own Virtual Machine.

I downloaded it twice and yes, I did confirm the checksum. So then a dev walks by and mentions that he was able to install it in VMware. After I finished banging my head on the desk, I asked him to put the image on the server so I could download it.

Today was my first full day using it. Oh. My. God. This is a release candidate? This is what you have to show for 5 years of dev work? I understand that most of the years were spent crippling the feature set but it’s more like a beta than an RC. Picture XP with a new theme and all the menus moved around and there you go. Except that the requirements for Vista are so high that even a 3GHz CPU cause it to stutter and chug away.

Now it’s only been a day and I’m not a big fan of [tag]Microsoft[/tag] so I guess I’m biased but really… Moving stuff around and then creating a new control panel so the user can now control all the items that used to be together is not moving forward, it’s busy work.

The good news is that our stuff works on it. That’s [tag]Java[/tag] for you… Good enough; let’s not speak of this again. [/startTech]

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My first upload to [tag]YouTube[/tag]. Nice that it took forever to convert a 1MB file…

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Well, this is lovely; my server seems to be melting down and I can’t get to my site (if you’re reading this, it’s fixed… There was some table overhead in my db. *mental note* ask MiHwa what table overhead is…)

Had a nice dinner at Janice and Dan’s place Saturday evening. Kim and Jen were there as well and we shared a fine meal and many laughes. I learned two things:

a) if you beat whipped cream too long it will suddenly separate into something resembling cottage cheese

b) if Janice asks you to play Twister, just say no and leave the room. ‘Nuff said…

Sunday was really nice out so I decided to get out and take some pictures in and around Chinatown. It was a perfect day for it and I really enjoyed myself. Today had a very Sunday feel; go figure… Inexplicably, I decided to get a bus home only to get on the No. 3 *shudder* where I toured the very worst of the Downtown Eastside. I stayed on the bus, riding right past where I got on except that I was now going in the other direction. Sheepishly, I got out at Main St. and took the train.

Sorry for the lack of posts. Actually, I’m not but I am trying to justify my hosting costs. Most of my neighbours seem to be on their meds, so nothing blogworthy has happened lately. I’ve got my eye out tho…

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…and nothing happened. Good then; everything’s back to normal.

I’m back on Pacific time, thank you very much. My jet lag recovery was pretty good apart from Monday where I nearly died. Likely an alergic reaction to being back at work.

The knee I had injured on the first week when I missed a couple of stairs, is now much better. I’m betting this has something to do with not walking around for 8 hours a day. Hopefully the wife (I guess I can call her that publicly now) will stop telling me to go see a doctor. I’m a guy. Guys don’t go to doctors unless something’s broken.

I have the trip page done; sans banner. I haven’t come up with one yet but I guess I’ll whip one up at some point. The observant reader will notice that it’s been there for a while but if I thought any of you were actually reading, I wouldn’t be mentioning it now.

For reasons unknown, I decided to upgrade my Flickr account to a Pro and upload 98% of the 450+ pics I took. Please go have a look so that my $30 wasn’t spent for nothing. Now that I have a Pro account, I’m all motivated to upload more of my pics!

Too bad they all suck…

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