Employee 505 is right (don’t tell him I said that)… it’s been ages since we’ve update the site, but we’re back! On my side, I moved to a new place and unfortunately my internet wasn’t turned back on for nearly a month. On top of that, we had a storm that knocked out power in my new place for eight freaking days. We actually had power back on the 22^nd of December… my favorite thing to do on Christmas? Having a hot shower. One temperature allowed: scalding. Anything to remind me of the heat I had lost and now I have the burns to remind me. Work-wise, the holidays were fun… my work decided to call me during the Christmas weekend and then again on New Year’s Day. We actually had one manager call it a “tradition” that there are these critical issues during the holidays every year. After that series of unfortunately events, I took a vacation. I needed it. But I’m back, yes it is mid February but it’s good to be back. And apparently just in time for… Vista.

Vista. It is the next generation operating system from Microsoft. There has been a huge amount of advertising about how this operating system is bigger, better, and more secure. Bigger is right, this thing is huge. We’re talking about gigabytes of space. I don’t know about how much has changed exactly, except for the fact that the interface has been completely revamped. On that front, nice job… it looks more like the Mac OS now. Ouch. Be that as it may, they do have some nifty features that I know I can get used to. I love that little widget thing to keep track of stocks… although I think it’s retarded that it’s limited to a window of three stocks at any given time. In honor of that 70’s show the proper insult here is: “You dumbass.” They do have a lot of widgets that are pretty cool if you ask me. Now there seem to be about four or five different versions of the operating system with “Ultimate” being the top of the line version. What the hell is the difference? More importantly… should I update my Windows XP box? Granted…with Vista out, I presume Windows XP is now a lesser priority and hence will be updated less frequently… i.e. it’ll get phased out over the next few years. Personally, I really have no desire to fork over a couple hundred bucks for the thing that’ll replace a perfectly good XP system for now. Besides I know all my applications and programs work on my current OS. Speaking of programs…Damn you world of warcraft … you tempt me so.

Ok, I think that was random enough for a comeback article.