On the 4th of July I was feeling all patriotic and thought I would blog about it. I never got around to it. Still, I think I am one lucky S.O.B. for being born and living in this country at this particular moment in the history of the world. I believe the soul is immortal, and I don't understand what I did before coming to earth to merit the very fortunate circumstances that I got. Maybe I won the lottery or something. Anyway -- what a country! My thanks to the founding fathers and all others who fought and sacrificed for our benefit.
I have been downloading and installing utilities from Scott Hanselman's ultimate developer and power tools list. It was very nice of him to share it. Cool stuff!
I am still reading the Ender's series from Orson Scott Card. I am now reading Children of the Mind. It is a good read, but not near as grabbing as the original book -- Ender's Game. If you haven't read that one, run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore and get it.
I have decided that in many ways Windows Media Player sucks. It suffers from the same problem as many other formerly decent products, such as Word and Excel. The problem is that once the program gets good, they can't just leave it alone and call it done. They have to keep screwing with it to either give it more features or make it possible for morons to use it. Well, the morons won, now I can't use it. And some new feature broke the product -- I can't get it to update CD tracks when ripping with fetched album info (such as song names, etc.). I Googled the problem and I'm not the only one out there with it, and there seems to be no solution.
Hollywood is wondering why they are in a movie-going slump this year. Movie attendance is down. Hmmm. Let's see. Maybe it's because prices are now too high and quality is too low. I plopped down $16 for two tickets last weekend to see several commercials (Wanna Fanta, doncha wanna?), and then the movie Bewitched. Um, yeah. Ok. I think I'll pass on movies for a while.
All for now.