Still working on the two new call centers at work. Programming telephone systems can be fun, but it is a lot of work the way we are setting these places up. Will be working on these two centers for another week and a half at least.
Will somebody please tell North Korea that unless they become a lot more reasonable that they will cease to exist? Everytime I hear about the goings on regarding all of those missles, all I can think about is the depiction of Kim Jong Il in Team America: World Police. The more he shoots his mouth off, the more I realize that his depiction in the movie was spot on.
I have always been a big fan of the space program. However, can someone please tell me why, over twenty years after the first shuttle blasted off, we’re still hearing about foam cracking on the external fuel tank and falling off during lift-off? In twenty years, the same people who got us to the moon can’t figure out how to keep foam on the external fuel tank? Obviously, it’s a big deal as 7 people have died because of it. Shouldn’t that make this problem number one on the list of things to fix before risking astronauts’ lives?
I took the new Windows Vista for a spin for a couple of weeks. Overall, it performed well, but it is obviously still a beta version. The new Aero Glass graphics looked wonderful, but on a computer with a gig of RAM, the memory indicator never went below 50% used. The new account security was a pain in the neck for someone like me who is used to having full control over everything on my computer. Vista introduces Windows users to limited Administrative accounts, which let you do a lot, but not everything. Each time you want to do something it thinks will get you into trouble, it makes you confirm twice that you want to do it. Fortunately, you can turn this off, but even still that doesn’t give administrative accounts full access. The only account which, out of the box, can do anything is called Trusted Installer, and that is a system account which a user can’t access.
