Windows Vista

Word-wide Windows Vista Launch Begins

Let the marketing insanity begin. BillG is even showing up on The Daily Show tonight. If you find the Windows Vista logo is burned into your eyeballs over the next month, let me just say it's not my fault...

Stupid ChickRockChuck Pet Tricks

Sitting at PF Chang's waiting for my lunch today, I noticed they were playing a cover of Jim Croce's "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)". They have a tendency to play a lot of "chick rock", and the singer was definitely female with an R&B sound. My guess was Toby Lightman, and it turns out she released that cover recently. Given my love for angsty songs and messed up covers--and the fact the staff tunes out the music so they don't know what was playing--, I was pleased to guess correctly.

What's so "Ultimate" about it?

Now that Windows Vista has hit the street, I expect to be getting a ton of questions about it from friends and family. I figured I'd head off some of the questions with the most basic question: ( What the hell is up with all those different versions? )

What's so "Ultimate" about it? Part Two

( Should I bother to upgrade to Windows Vista? )