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triadruidDriving in to work this morning was like entering Maine a Stephen King novel. Downtown was full of mist, to the point where you couldn't see ANY of the skyscrapers, even from the 11th Street exit. Then they slowly came into focus, but when you actually got downtown, there was blue sky overhead. Bizarre little microclimate...
Finally got into T-Mobile's online Address Book today, so I didn't have to enter the entire thing by hand on my new cellphone (bleargh). Of course, it took about four tries to get the formatting right (it doesn't like spaces, dots, or hyphens; digits only plz). I'll post the actual number in a locked post later...
In other news of unclearness, I've been trying to sort out the appeal/shortcomings of 64-bit computing, operating systems, and the like. I literally haven't read ANYTHING about this in recent years, until I started thinking about building a new computer. Now I'm left with the various flavors of Windows XP Professional, or sticking with the soon-to-be-extinct Win2k (Failure Vista is not an option). On the one hand, WinXP has a version (actually built on Windows Server 2003, apparently) for 64-bit computers; on the other hand, that might or might not push my driver situation into no-man's land, and it's not clear how much advantage can actually be derived from 64-bit processors at this point. On the gripping hand, buying a full version of WinXP for $100+ just to have a backup OS is aggravating, to say the least, but I'm not quite sure I want to go down the Linux single-boot path again.
The blogotubes are full of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt; anybody have anything intelligent/educational to say on the subject?
Finally got into T-Mobile's online Address Book today, so I didn't have to enter the entire thing by hand on my new cellphone (bleargh). Of course, it took about four tries to get the formatting right (it doesn't like spaces, dots, or hyphens; digits only plz). I'll post the actual number in a locked post later...
In other news of unclearness, I've been trying to sort out the appeal/shortcomings of 64-bit computing, operating systems, and the like. I literally haven't read ANYTHING about this in recent years, until I started thinking about building a new computer. Now I'm left with the various flavors of Windows XP Professional, or sticking with the soon-to-be-extinct Win2k (
The blogotubes are full of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt; anybody have anything intelligent/educational to say on the subject?
