Miscellaneous thoughts

My wife and I have recently joined Facebook and it has been an interesting experience. It's amazing how intertwined everyone becomes being friends of friends. It would make a good example of how STD's spread! We have resorted to dragging out the old school yearbooks to put faces to names. What I realized today that we are all old as hell!

The other day, I went outside to take out the trash and have a smoke. I was carrying one of those BBQ/candle lighters in my left hand and a bag of trash with my right hand. Apparently, these lighters are made for right-handed people, because I couldn't light the damn thing without switching hands. Left-handers, my thoughts are with you.

Ol' Bill Gates has really been pushing Windows 7 on us. Last year, I jumped from W2K Pro straight to Vista, bypassing XP altogether. 8 months later, here comes 7. Between the ads from Micro$oft about how great and error-free it is and Apple's ads about how they have always been great and error-free, I wonder why we should pay for an upgrade to 7 anyway. If the previous versions of Windows were so crappy, we should all get free upgrades! At the risk of pissing off my Mac-using friends and relatives, it hasn't always been the answer either. It's expensive owning a Mac. I guess it's like shopping at a mall store instead of Walmart. Mr. Gates has made a shitload of money by selling us a mediocre product and no amount of well-publicized do-gooding will gloss that over.