Well, here I am this morning, looking at the calendar, and reminiscing about being on about day 1001 of my
Looking back to November 2007, there I was, with
when I wandered over to the Hewlett Packard website a couple of times and was finally seduced into purchasing a new "custom built" server PC with all of the bells and whistles and whirly-gigs I wanted to handle our personal and business needs for the foreseeable future...
...except...
HP had sold their soul to the devil knuckled under to Gates/Microsoft and ten days later I had a living breathing spastic metal box running...
"Windows Vista Home Premium Edition."
D A M M I T.
So now for the past nearly three years I've felt like this gentleman:
...and in spite of my best efforts and consultations with people like this young fellow:
and this guy:
and this dude:
and even this man:
...this morning after great effort and expense it seems I will have to live with the realization that I still can't shake the curse of Windows Vista.
Worst of all, just like the "Borg" on Star Trek Next Generation, me and my computer have apparently been assimilated into some sinister Microsoft Network, because I even VOLUNTARILY RE-INSTALLED VISTA last week because I couldn't get Windows 2000 XP Professional to work on the intentionally designed and corrupted machine.
And so now this morning, after doing extensive file restorations and back-up, I'm now forced to sit in my shop in my basement on my old reliable HP 17" wide screen laptop (running Windows 2000 XP Professional Media Center Edition by the way) doing my news reading and blogging because the "Server PC" is busy installing "Service Pack 1" and whatever other crap Microsoft wants to force me to download to correct the screwed up software they sold me in 2007.
And of course I'm inundated with ads trying to get me to "upgrade" to the latest and greatest product--"Windows 7"...
...a product named "Windows 7" because everyone with any sense knows that "Vista II" or "Vista 2" would have sold like a new version of the Chevy Corvair or the Ford Edsel.
So any way...I love being an American, I love growing up free until about 20 years ago, but right now I hate the state of our economy and the idiots running Adams and Jefferson's and Franklin's government and the way things are going in the computer department around here I might just buy a Macintosh in 2011.
I have to go now and soak my head in ice water before it explodes...
...and Y'all have a LOVELY day now...if you will...
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