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Feb. 1st, 2009 04:58 pm* The Oopersay Ohlbay begins in under two hours. Ask me if I care. They named Bills owner Ralph Wilson to the NFL Hall of Fame yesterday, but he'll probably try to move the shrine to Toronto for two weeks out of every year.
* My posthumous love affair with Donald E. Westlake's writing just ended. Sorry, dude. The Grifters is one of those mandatory AFI Classic Films I'd somehow managed to miss, despite Westlake doing the screenplay and despite my adoring most of the cast in other things. Not this, though. ( In case this is a spoiler,... )
* Vista has once again messed with my head. I went to do month-end billing yesterday and my 2006-era proprietary software said, in its best Chief Engineer Scottish brogue, "Cap'n! The database engine canna start! Thar's a memory conflict timelip.exze at 000F8F83! Reinstall and if it dinna work then, she's ginna blow!" Fortunately, I did not yet turn off the System Restore function on this beast that had, at a later stage of Eleanor's XP life, slowed her puter to a crawl, and by undoing the last Windows Update I received, the thing worked again. But I cannot put up with this crap long-term. Timeslips keeps bugging me to upgrade to its 2009 version which dices, slices, makes mounds and mounds of cole slaw and is supposedly Vista-compatible, but fuck, I don't want to go through this all over again when Windows 7 comes out and the only solution is another 400 bucks for Timeslips 2010.
* Ah, but all of this pales faced with the unintentional comedy of the day. Many of you have seen reference to this, I expect, in the same place that I did, but apparently the UK is having itself a bit of a scandal in the upper House of Parliament. From The Times:
The Sunday Times said that four Labour peers agreed to meet and help their reporters and asked for as much as £120,000 to help secure amendments to a Government Bill. All four - Lord Taylor, Lord Snape, Lord Moonie of Bennochie and Lord Truscott of St James - deny any wrongdoing.
Reporters are still scurrying to find out what wrongdoing might have been done by Lord Pettigrew or Lord Vold::koff koff gasp::....
::I FIND RAY'S LACK OF FAITH IN ME DISTURBING::
* My posthumous love affair with Donald E. Westlake's writing just ended. Sorry, dude. The Grifters is one of those mandatory AFI Classic Films I'd somehow managed to miss, despite Westlake doing the screenplay and despite my adoring most of the cast in other things. Not this, though. ( In case this is a spoiler,... )
* Vista has once again messed with my head. I went to do month-end billing yesterday and my 2006-era proprietary software said, in its best Chief Engineer Scottish brogue, "Cap'n! The database engine canna start! Thar's a memory conflict timelip.exze at 000F8F83! Reinstall and if it dinna work then, she's ginna blow!" Fortunately, I did not yet turn off the System Restore function on this beast that had, at a later stage of Eleanor's XP life, slowed her puter to a crawl, and by undoing the last Windows Update I received, the thing worked again. But I cannot put up with this crap long-term. Timeslips keeps bugging me to upgrade to its 2009 version which dices, slices, makes mounds and mounds of cole slaw and is supposedly Vista-compatible, but fuck, I don't want to go through this all over again when Windows 7 comes out and the only solution is another 400 bucks for Timeslips 2010.
* Ah, but all of this pales faced with the unintentional comedy of the day. Many of you have seen reference to this, I expect, in the same place that I did, but apparently the UK is having itself a bit of a scandal in the upper House of Parliament. From The Times:
The Sunday Times said that four Labour peers agreed to meet and help their reporters and asked for as much as £120,000 to help secure amendments to a Government Bill. All four - Lord Taylor, Lord Snape, Lord Moonie of Bennochie and Lord Truscott of St James - deny any wrongdoing.
Reporters are still scurrying to find out what wrongdoing might have been done by Lord Pettigrew or Lord Vold::koff koff gasp::....
::I FIND RAY'S LACK OF FAITH IN ME DISTURBING::
