Sunday Night Videos

I would never, ever attempt to be like these guys ...



... for fear of ending up like this guy:



Steve Nash is more consistent at free throw shooting than I am at ... breathing ...



... though I am better than this girl at explaining the plot of Star Wars:

Windows 7 Beta: First Impressions

I'd have to say I'm pretty impressed with some of the changes from Windows Vista to Windows 7.

Some new things I noticed:

• The new dock taskbar actually works! There are still some minor bugs, but then, this is a beta. The dock taskbar functions somewhat similarly to the Mac OSX dock, except with way too much eyecandy. This can either be a good thing or a bad thing.


• UAC by default isn't as annoying as it was before. Its more inline with what Ubuntu does with the sudo dialog for administrative tasks, but the UAC popup frequency is a little too frequent for my tastes.


• Those taskbar status icons are consolidated to a small popup window. No more long list of status icons invading your dock any more.


• Sidebar dock from Vista is gone. You can now just add Gadgets directly to the desktop.

Application compatibility is currently an unknown, but I will be installing some games to see how performance is with the current beta. All things said, things appear to be more responsive and whatnot, so we'll see how it holds up in the next couple weeks.

Obviously, things might change when they release the final version of Windows 7, but these current changes from what I've seen are good.

No-keyboard Apple Notebook

I'd so buy one.

From the Onion via DF.

Great fantasy fantastical fight

Speedy Delivery

I'm pretty sure that some of the UPS drivers who've delivered packages to my house work something like this:



I once had an envelope with hundreds of dollars worth of software "delivered" into the Lilies of the Nile on the opposite side of my house from the door and mailbox. Didn't find it until a couple of weeks later, when the sprinklers were off due to a leak and we were watering the plants by hose.

(At least it was delivered to the right house that time, unlike some of the notebook computers I've ordered!)

My FedEx experiences are about on par with my UPS experiences. I sleep much better at night when packages are sent to my house via U.S. Postal Service. Thankfully, all the services deliver reliably to my work, where they are cool about us receiving personal packages.