Good bye sweet prince

There must be a misprint or omission of truth. Apparently there is no MSG in the tasty popcorn ‘Smartfood’. Lies! I hope the CIA and FBI are on this.

Well my Dad who didn’t seem to want to touch a computer a few months ago is becoming quite the geek. (perhaps it is genetic after all?) He (and my mother) are now reading and posting on blogs, MSNing daily (with smilies, winks… the whole deal) and surfing all over the web. Who would have thought? I think it is great. With my sister now several provinces over, my parents having a computer (and Internet) as a communication tool seemed indispensable to me. Hopefully soon I will show them some form of audio chat via MSN or Skype.

In sad and tragic news Micro$oft has decided to terminate Clippy. ⚠️ (404 link removed - Jan/24) With all the extra resources now available to M$ I’m expecting great things from Vi$ta. But from what I’ve read it is pretty disappointing. It has DX10 but there are no DX10 games and you need a DX10 Video card to use it… so *shrug* My impression is XP works fine for games. Apparently game performance in Vi$ta sucks ⚠️ (404 link removed - Jan/24) anyway. The UI is improved : don’t care; it doesn’t look better than any Mac OS or KDE have for *years*. Security is improved : I’ll believe it after Vi$ta has been out a year or two. So far I don’t see any compelling reason to switch. If anything, for the first time in my life I would consider (yes I’m saying this on my Blog) a um… Mac. They are now Intel based so I can duel boot and enjoy the simplicity of running a Mac. Perhaps my next PC. Whoa.

Crazy snow outside… phew.