1: How I detest Microsoft and yet they temporarily have me by the throat. (Vista and IE7 are the driving forces behind my new desire to make the uber-expensive switch to Mac.
2: I am experiencing such depression regarding the lack of relationship between Adobe's Creative Suite 3 and Vista. After our homeschool group ponied up $2000 for 10 licenses, 7 out of 10 of them have stopped loading, refuse to completely un-install, making it impossible to re-install. When many of us called Microsoft, we were either re-routed and our calls never picked up (I personally sat there for 45 minutes with not even a "sorry please continue to hold" message) or we were told that we had pirated versions. After one parent spent hours researching the dilemma, he discovered that ours is not an isolated incident. There are many blogs and forums with many entries from small companies and folks like us. All who have legally purchased licenses, and who are running Vista. The gist (fomr what I understand) of the problem appears to be that Vista/Adobe is not recognising the licenses and neither company is offering support. So our tiny school is out $2000 and has to resort to other substandard programs to complete the media arts program.
one gentleman offered the idea that it is when other programs/hardware are introduced into the system that conflicts arise. I can argue that. My daughter's CS3 on her Vista box was one of the first to crash and she is technophobic so she does not load anything on her computer. There are no printers installed, no scanners no other peripheral harware installed that could compete. Her CS3 ran for two months and then cacked.
Big reason for me to stick with my beloved XP for now, and keep running my old CS2.
EASTER:
Had a great Easter. Went to brunch at Pleaides restaurant which just opened here. We had a gift certificate so decided to go and enjoy it. It was absolutely perfect. I have never had a perfect filet mignon. I like it med well. Not Med Rare. Not Well. Medium Well. This one was perfect.
Add in the mimosas and a crab martini and it was a nice afternoon.
We all went home after the meal and took a nap.
Movies:
MacKenzie made a tentative trip to the theatre to see Horton Hears a Who.
She was not sure she was going to like it, but ended up enjoying it, and going back a second time to see it.
The local video store owner managed to procure a copy of an old Tony Randall movie : "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (pronounced Dr. "low")
It is a fantasy film that is certainly fit for the entire family.
So anyway, I rented that today and can't wait to get it on my faux pod.
:o)
So much for today's minutae.
ax men
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It comes on Sundays on the history channel. Shows, I think, four different logging crews in the Oregon forrests. I watched it last night and I thought of you. It's a pretty cool show I guess. I don't particularly like logging as an industry, (tree hugger), but as a tv show it brings a lot of different things to light. Including the dangers of the career and also the towns and people who depend on logging to feed their families.
There's a lot of bleeped out swearing. I don't know what rating that gives it for you and your family, since you can still sort of read lips and such.. but it showcases Oregon and I don't know if "educational" is the right word, but it is perhaps more interesting and worth watching than some silly friends sitcom I think. It's real people living real life, doing a real life job. So I dunno.. thought I'd let you decide for yourself.
Anyway, miss you.