Author: The Thursday after the midweek public holiday
This morning as I drove to work, I thought of today as Monday without the enthusiasm.
Interesting
According to the family tree my paternal grandfather drew up before he died in 1989, my earliest (known) ancestor is Gilbride, Earl of Angus. This is correctly written as Gille Brigte, considering that Gaelic was the language of the day.
Very sad
An 8 year old boy died in hospital hours after being rescued from drowning by paramedics and so forth. See related link.
Duplicate emails
One of the most annoying things in Outlook over the years has been duplicate emails, usually as a result of merging PST files. I've been using Outlook since 1997, so there was a fair number of duplicates.
Thunderbird to Outlook
My original reason for moving my email to Thunderbird was so that I could run SUSE 10.1 on my laptop.
More on Vista
Aero is back. I did a full defrag and am using the new Diskeeper intelligent defragger, and it has made the computer much more responsive. If Aero bugs me, it's gone though. I found the Vista Basic interface to be reasonable enough, so it is an adequate replacement to Aero if necessary. The biggest issue I have is when my typing takes too long to appear on screen. Waiting half a second every sentence is annoying as hell.
Vista and Office
Last night was the final stage of transferring my 10GB+ of data onto Vista, and playing around with Office 2007 whilst working on my UNISA assignments.
Spam you very much
This is a short extract from one of only 72 spam emails I've received today. It's getting funnier.
Vista
Well, it's done. I got Windows Vista running on my notebook. I'm still struggling through getting it set up right, and haven't quite turned off the visual styles yet.
No update at this time
My website's look and feel is staying as is for the foreseeable future.