tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87638752011-04-21T14:27:47.631-04:00Nonsense, that's all it is. My rantings and ravings that no one really cares about. Just a little piece of my mind, can you handle it?David VanScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028223541710819375noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763875.post-1127249998874170572005-09-20T16:46:00.000-04:002005-09-20T16:59:58.883-04:00

Up until a little over a year ago, I had used PCs and Windows exclusively. I won't get into the merits of the Mac vs. PC debate as that's one conversation that will never die, no matter what the market share is. However, having used Windows 3.1, 95, 98 (both editions), ME, 2000, and XP, I wanted to weigh in on my disappointment with Microsoft at their Professional Developers Conference this year,

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I like television, I won't lie. And on top of that, my tastes are fairly varied. I've been known to watch shows like Grey's Anatomy, Joey, The OC, Smallville, Enterprise, Whose Line Is It Anyway, and so on and so forth. Yes, my tastes are varied. I always get excited in May when the networks announce their new shows and I try to get a feel for what shows I'll try to catch when they premiere.

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I would consider myself a pretty avid follower of things on television and especially like seeing the whole development cycle that happens with TV. I like watching new shows and seeing how they do, and maybe why they get axed so quickly by the networks. There are several shows of note this midseason that I've gotten myself attached to.The first is called Grey's Anatomy and is on ABC Sunday

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Fine:This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.Five Minutes:If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given 5 more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.Nothing:This is the calm before the storm. This means "something" and you should be on your toes. Arguments that

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Say goodbye to Microsoft and the cancer that is Windows that has spread through the whole world. The worst part about cancer is that you don't know you have until it's too late, just like the problems with Windows. Macs, on the other hand, offer a breath of fresh air that makes using a computer fun and productive again!Where else do you find an operating system that has yet to successfully be

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Hillary Clinton is elected President and is spending her first night in the White House. She has waited so long.The ghost of George Washington appears, and Hillary says, "How can I best serve my country?"Washington says, "Never tell a lie.""Ouch!" says Hillary, "I don't know about that."The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson appears and Hillary says, "How can I best serve my country?"

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UPDATE: Someone's playing with my head now. Oh Mystery Poster, reveal yourself! I apparently have a stalker who wishes to remain anonymous, yet still be mentioned here. To whoever may have little to do with what free time they have, I will need to know who you are in order to mention you. If you can accept this and come forward, I would be happy to mention you here.

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This one's just for Christina because she's stalking me at the moment.

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A man, his wife and mother-in-law went on vacation to the Holy Land. While they were there the mother-in-law passed away. The undertaker told them, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150.00." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home. The undertaker asked, "Why?" Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your

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Again, not original, but good nonetheless... A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was

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Not original, but hilarious nonetheless... Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up. Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them.

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So it seems that I am one of the few souls on the earth that has yet to see The Phantom of the Opera on stage, but I redeemed myself by going to see the motion picture on Christmas night. Bret had seen the play on stage, so I decided to rely on him for lending to the film's accuracy, which he said it did very well. That aside, I thought the film was excellent on more than one level. Normally,

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Has anyone ever noticed how everyone is so concerned with efficiency now? You know, our cars have to get the best gas mileage, we have to find a way to do something that requires less time than before, use a progam on our computer that lets us do the same thing in less time or by chewing up few resources. Well my friends, Trillian is such a tool. Go ahead, click on the image above, it'll

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After 14 weeks, it's finally here ... that's right, winter break. Well, for me there really wasn't a summer break, so this is especially well-deserved. Last spring, the semester trickled into the summer job and that slammed right into this fall's semester, so to be home and with nothing at all to do is kinda nice ... no, it's really nice! I mean, it's home-cooked food, computer games, surfing

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What I can't understand is how Microsoft has as large a market share as they do. Just a little while ago, I was trying to install something on my machine and couldn't run the installer and an IM window without the IM window crapping out on me. Now, this isn't for lack of power, I have over a gig of memory mind you and well over 2 gigahertz of speed ... I'm pretty set. No no, it's just subpar

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It's official, I've sold my soul to academia. While everyone is out partying and having fun, here I am taking a small study break from a history paper about the impact of technological enhancements on Tuesday's presidential election. Granted, it's an interesting subject, but that's no justification for my lack of funness (yes, I know it's not a word, I am, after all, an English major). I

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8-0. Sound familiar? Well, in case you're dead and have no clue what's going on in the world, that would be the Boston Red Sox's record over the last eight games. I'm sure everyone's read and even seen the history-defying run they've made, first coming back from an 0-3 start to not only force a Game 6 with the Yankees (something that's only been done a handful of times), but also force a Game

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Hey, for you nerds out there who have RSS readers, check out the site feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/thebaldone or if you prefer XML feeds, http://baldone.blogspot.com/atom.xml.

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For those of you who know me even a little bit, you know that I'm a big fan of tracking software development. Sure it's my "nerdy" side shining through, but it's fascinating to see what's happening with the next operating systems we'll be using in the coming years. Either way, there are two right now that are being tracked very closely: Microsoft Windows Codename Longhorn and Mac OS X 10.4

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That's definitely the question on everyone's mind in Boston right now. While I don't follow religiously during the season, once the postseason rolls around in October, I watch with some interest, and specifically, the Boston Red Sox. Needless to say, you can imagine how disappointed I was when they dropped the first three games. But the last two nights have been heart-pounding as they've won

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Indeed, I have joined the ranks of the millions of other bloggers on the planet. I guess I'm doing this primarily because I get so many complaints from people that they have no clue what's going on with me until they see me once every 2 months. Hopefully, this will help stop that. Not only can I tell you what's going on with me, but you can even post comments on my entries. How cool is that?

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