Windows Vista

This is just my reaction to this article at winsupersite.com.

so... generally decent graphics (although still trailing behind OSX),
"simplified graphical install (which looks a lot like the Fedora Core
installer to me) and my favorite:

"There is also a special version of IE 7 hidden away in the System
Tools folder that loads IE without any plug-ins. Logically named
Internet Explorer (No Add-ons), this version of IE might be useful to
use if your system is compromised in some way and spyware is
preventing you from using the browser normally. In other words, to be
safe, Microsoft has to ship a version of IE that doesn't work like IE.
Cute."

This is sure looking like a great upgrade from XP... hehe... I think
the new graphics will make firefox and gaim look a little better...
hah

nice try MS.... several years behind though...

accident...

ugh... so today we were in the van... and trying to turn left out of a parking lot... and ended up not seeing someone in the second lane (because a silver suv was turning into the lot) and got hit... no one seemed to be hurt... except the vehicles... his was driveable, but our front drivers side wheel was "folded" (at least that's how my mom explained it) So... it got towed... so either it will get fixed fairly soon... or moving stuff to college will be rather interesting...

Canoe Trip

Today we were out on the river... it was a beautiful day. Also got to do a little grilling, it turned out pretty well, good ribs and pineapple.

Tennessee

I'm (as a few people know) in tennessee right now. We spent the day at the pool and went to a baseball game. Got a bit of a sunburn, but it's nice to see the cousins/ aunt and uncle.

Cubs lost...

The Cubs lost their game saturday when we went... but it was still fun. The seats were on the third base side, a bit different than I'm used to, and were actually really nice seats. Dinner afterwards at Gino's East was great... I love Chicago-Style Pizza.
It was really nice to see Amy again for the weekend.

Today though... not the best, not feeling to great for some reason... and didn't sleep all that well either... oh well, what can ya do? Anyway, going on another trip to Nashville this week to visit our cousins. That should be interesting. Then when I get back it'll just be waiting for August... It'll be nice to get back to classes...

Cubs

Only a few(3) more days until I get to go to another Cubs Game!! It's always a fun time, Wrigley is such a cool place.

Until then I'm working on a few different projects... all of which I just started this week... and only one is even close to working...

Our kitchen is actually getting pretty close, a lot of the cabinets are in, and the rest are in boxes in the garage, along with the countertop and appliances.

That's it for now... not much detail in this one... just a general idea of what's going on...

programming

I was working on a program yesterday... and it kept deleting the end of the message I wanted to print out... and after looking through it closer today it seems that (at least in C#) putting a null in the middle of a string deletes everything you put after that... after more looking around, I found that either adding either (char)0 or '\0' does that... now my question is this: Why would you need to do that? ...meh

Saturday

Today^H^H^H^H^H Yesterday was great, It was really nice out, and I spent most of the day with Amy and Yoder. Really nice to get to see her, uh, them.

"Batman Begins" turned out to be very well done, I really liked it. Not that I didn't expect to, I was just impressed. Anyway, that's about it... I should really get to bed.


Oh, and btw, I have just about finished configuring Gentoo with icewm and firefox on the laptop (old Thinkpad 390e) and it really is working out nice...