Back To Normal, I Guess
It's been a week since BrickFest ended, and I think I'm finally caught up on sleep. Now my two big priorities are BZP and LEGOFan.
But first, a digression. A few weeks ago, I got the Windows Vista upgrade that I was promised when I bought my new computer last November, so I installed it. Bad move. Half my apps (including the newly-purchased Halo, as well as iTunes) stopped working. Grrrr. So I decided to use the 3 DVD backup they'd forced me to make in order to get my system back to normal. I spent all yesterday working on that.
First of all, I'm not sure what "Restore" means to those geeks at Microsoft, because those disks did not restore my system to the way it was when I created those disks... it went back to factory settings, without any of my data or settings or applications. Double grrr. OK, fine. Good thing I backed everything up on my own external hard drive.
Then I go back to reinstall MS Office, which I use for email, and the email data file I'd used turned out to be 5 months out of date, even though the last modified date was yesterday. So the end result is I lost 5 months worth of emails.
Triple grrrr.
I hate Microsoft.
Now I've got a half-usable computer with no applications installed (except Halo, because I really felt the need to blow the $&*#^ out of something yesterday). I'll finish it up today.
My advice: Don't bother with Vista, there's nothing that's compelling about having to have it. Wait for the bugs to be worked out (which there are several - I had runtime errors all over the place). I'll stick with XP, at least for now.
Or maybe I should just scoot over to the Mac mini sitting next to the PC and use it instead.
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