Despite the fact
that my ATM card wasn’t being accepted by the company credit union ATM at the office this afternoon, which for the record, has NEVER happened in my life, today and this week actually ended on a productive note.
I know I didn’t post Wednesday; by the time I got home it was so late that I ate and crashed. Last night was Wii tournament night, and I didn’t get home until 11 o’clock - pretty late for a school night.
My fitness age actually worsened! 45 years old! I blame the patching stress that Microsoft thrust upon us. In case you don’t have Dell 610 or 410 Latitude laptops and aren’t in the know, Patch KB.blahblah338’s kernel update causes Dell 610 and 410’s to blue screen!
I must say incorporating two kernel updates into one patch month is pure genius on the part of Microsoft. In their defense, they do instruct you to reboot between patches, but 2 reboots? Come on, what year is this actually? 1997?
In other, God, Microsoft is making me angry news: After forcefully making PC makers package Vista with their new hardware, vendors are finding that people don’t really want to buy Vista boxes. They want XP - something reliable and happy.
So this week Dell announced it was starting to ship Windows XP, which will continue to be supported, I might add, until 2010. It was funny to see that on their site.
I’m heading to Ikea tonight to buy some flooring for my den. I will be installing said flooring and installing some screens on the hizzouse this weekend.
From the Once a desktop guy, always a desktop guy Dept:
Theoretically, my involvement with this patch fiasco outside of the delivery mechanism is outside of my job scope. At the end of the day, however, these kinds of issues are all hands on deck issues. If users cannot do their job, I feel it is the responsibility of all capable persons in our department to facilitate and assist in any way possible.
We all should, at times when needed, wear the operations hat.
Supposed to hit 80 on Sunday.. glad to see spring’s back.
Get out of the house and stop reading blogs,
Jimmy