Everybody likes to say how bad Vista is. But I think they may just not know how to use a computer! Yes, you need to be careful that you don’t bog it down with junkware like bloaty antivirus, anti this and anti that but my two month old HP laptop with Vista is OK. I keep thinking of a Mac laptop, but I don’t think the price differential for similar hardware will be worth it. Let’s see.

So far I’ve only had Vista crash to a blue screen about three times while using Microsoft Movie Mater. And the lesson there is when done with the movie making, to reboot. I’m not sure if it is even Movie Maker, it could be even Firefox with so many memory leaks. By the way, MS Movie Maker even works reading from the digital video camera and streaming the data to an external USB drive with no glitches. That’s a lot better than several years ago!

Anyhow, here’s a creative jab at Windows Vista which is quite funny:

Amber Mac: The video Microsoft doesn’t want you to see

I had a large Compuserve bill back in 1993 when living in Colombia but it is nothing compared to this guy in Calgary getting an $85,000 bill. My high Compuserve bill was due to me not seeing a bill for about 6 months and the charges accumulating. Still it was under $1000 for me, nothing compared to this!

Cellphone user shocked by charges of $85K

I agree with the first commentor, “don’t buy anything from Western Digital for the next 20 years!”

Western Digital network drives crippled — no serving any multimedia files – Boing Boing

That is worth a try, a net free day a week. Hard to do though when the mobile phone also has Email on it.

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