Thankful

I’m thankful for so much this holiday season.
Right now I’m thankful to be sitting here, coffee cup in hand, in my comfortable home, next to my wonderful wife…she orchestrated a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner yesterday.
I’m thankful for the family and friends who were with us to enjoy that dinner.
I’m thankful for the aroma of the turkey stock boiling on the stove, for the dishes to be all washed and put away…thankful…

Plenty of Blame to Go Around

I've been decrying the public's blasé acceptance of corporate corruption and Wall Street greed for years and expected a popular uprising when the situation reached a critical mass.
I would expect that we are damn close to that critical point now. But that's not what I see happening. What I see is the expectation that the same crowd that created this mess will fix it! Is the generation who understood responsibility so far in our past?
For weeks now I have been trying to find the words to express my anger and frustration. I've failed.

What I did find was a great commentary by Thomas L. Freidman in the New York Times' Op-Ed page. He points out that there were some people, honest and articulate, trying to shed light on the mismanagement on Wall Street. He mentions Michael Lewis and Meredith Whitney and I'm sure there were others.
The Permalink to All Fall Down is on the side bar as well as the link below:

All Fall Down

Highway to Hell

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I added some YouTube video links in the side-bar the other day. Still needs some tweaking I think. The best results so far appear to be from single song selections rather than artists. Most of the popular songs from the same group are available after a video ends. Listing the artist resulted in a lot of dead links.

P.S. - I've always been intrigued by the possibility that the Highway title was inspired by the Stairway title.

Windows Vista & Stuff

I hear and read so many complaints about Windows Vista. Sure, it has some mildly annoying features but the complaints seem misplaced. OK, the constant second guessing of my choices could irritate some. But it's really rather funny and I always win the argument. (I'm rather contrary: I even like to wear my VVS Wick-Dry socks on the wrong foot!) But I digress.
Misplaced!! God is it misplaced. The real monstrosity is the Office 2007 system, officially the F.U.I. Which, I believe, stands for Flummoxed User Interface. I've been teaching MS Office applications for lots of years and frequently laud some of the greatest features like forward and backward compatability and seamless user transition from one version to another. Nothing short of throwing the baby out with the bathwater comes close to the abortion performed on MS Office! There is permanent scarring on some of my brain cells as a result of the first time I tried to use 2007 Word. I merely wanted to open an existing document and print it. Imagine my surprise, no familiar toolbars. In fact no toolbars of any kind. And what's this? A menu bar that's no longer a menu bar? WTF? OK, OK relax...use Ctrl+O...good, something familiar, an Open dialog box!...damn, never been more thankful in my life to see the Open dialog box...whew...there's my document...carefully click the Open button... ? ? ? ?...I need a what?...what?...I NEED TO DOWNLOAD A FUCKING TRANSLATOR...Is this some kind of a joke?...IS THERE A GOD DAMN COMPUTER AROUND HERE THAT WORKS?
That was the end of my experience with O-bortion 2007 for several months because I uninstalled it and replaced it with Office 2003.


Angry Pc Man(remix) - The most popular videos are a click away

Alternate method:

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Or would you rather have BAILOUT month?

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November is RESPONSIBILITY Month!

Time we took some responsibility for our "Recession" bubble.
Responsibility and her sister, Honesty, have been banished from our daily lives for far too long.
Now we sit here. Stewing and waiting for OUR bailout. What is this type of economy called again? A Market economy? No that can't be right.

To be continued...