Flugle this!

I got the flu shot this year, just as usual. A week later, I got a nasty case of the flu not covered in this years shot. I’m bored out of my mind, sick and tired of staying home, and have been hitting someone’s blog so much that I’m throwing his traffic off (yes, I’m that bored.) I thought I’d share with everyone Flugle or as it’s really known as Google Flu Trends. It’s neat how you can see your own state, and others. It’s also neat how it picked up the sudden outbreak of the flu here in my little city of Columbia, just enough that it threw the trend up for a few days. I think I’ll stuff my face with turkey until I pass out this year, I’ve got nothing better to do.

“I have a dream…”

The nightmare is finally coming to an end

Windows 7 is not Windows 7.0

I’m not sure how Microsoft has arrived at this milestone.  But it’s not the first time they’ve done this.  If you remember Windows 3.1, or 3.11, or even have seen the actual version number of Windows 95, 98, 98SE, or ME as ver 4.X, you might think that Windows 7 is accurate.  It seemed pretty logical, as Windows XP was version 5.1, Vista is version 6.0, then Windows 7 is 7.0.  Right?  No.  Windows 7 is NT version 6.1.  Which seems a bit odd, but then there’s that NT thing.  Oh, yeah, NT.  Remember NT 3.1?  No?  That’s where NT started.  There is no NT 1.X or 2.X to be found (I’m sure they exist in some format at Microsoft, but just like a 1983 Corvette, it was not made for public consumption).  NT was released as NT 3.1 to match the then current Windows 3.1 consumer software in 1993.  NT 4.0 was released just after Windows 95.  Windows 5.0 (er, Windows 2000) was release between Windows 98SE and Windows ME.  When Windows XP arrived as 5.1, it seemed like a logical step.  Microsoft was heading in the direction they wanted, to get three operation systems (consumer, business, and server) under one kernel.  Okay, this was working.  Even Windows XP64bit shows the same version number as Windows 2003 Server, so obviously, things had come full circle.  And now Windows Vista and Server 2008 have the same version number, which would lead you to think that Vista would work better than it does.  Which brings us to Windows 6.1for Windows 7.  Still with me?  Which also leads to me believe that Microsoft sees the dogma of Vista being just as strong as ME.  Another build that needs to be buried as fast as possible.  Maybe Microsoft should have named it Windows Revista (Spanish for magazine). 

After the party…

Last night was a surprise.  Not that the party was a surprise, but that some friends that I had meet just 10 years ago, celebrated my 40th as if the party hadn’t stopped since we meet.  Some couldn’t make it, because babies sometimes come before they’re expected; and some showed up for the first time in years.  This was a lot of fun, and something I’d been missing the past few years.  We’re going to do it again real soon.

Where am I going with this?

Autumn has come to the Carolinas.  I drove down to my parents house this week, and noticed how vivid the trees have become in the past couple weeks.  Most of the trees here are everrgreen (like a pine) so seeing the trees change colour is a less drastic that when I lived in New Jersey.  The lawn changes shade too, since most “grass” here is not typical grass but more of a vine, and it turns brown in the fall.  Oh, that thing about Tara having a red lawn, yep, that happens here when the winter rye grass starts to fade.  It’s pretty damn sharp.

Drug commercials and their side effects…

Drug commercials are stupid.  Most of the time is spent describing the side effects of the medication.  Here’s a warning that will cover everything.

“Warning: This medication might cause death, or some other less dire side effects.  Consult your doctor and attorney before taking this medication.”

Nuff said.