Round-Abouts and Shiny Things.

Microsoft's new Operating looks nice and shiny, so shiny in fact that it will be hard to get the finger-prints off. Who knows it may even work : P. I won't bore you with any more details as ther is plenty of that avaliable on the world wide wibble.

And now on to Round-Abouts, Nelson is the spiritual home of the Round-About, they are not only are they traffic control measure, they are also a way of life. We have all sizes here from the cute little dimple in the road to large multi-headed hydra systems of inter-connected ones. I am convinced that they are either Mushrooms or Crashed UFO's as they have a habit of appearing over night. Perhaps i should call in Mulder and Scully or perhaps even the boys off Bad Taste.

Anyway things have come full circle in this town, plans are a foot tol replace some round-abouts with that other modern miracle Traffic-Lights. Of course in this day and age they will have to Politically Correct and environmentally friendly so provocative colours like red are out and environmentally friendly and happy colours like green are in. Of course to be truly politcally correct the ligts should all be a nice gender and belief neutral shade of beige.

Thats enough drivel for tonight..

Satan’s new offerings.

Tomorrow (Thursday), I am off to Wellington to spend a day being brainwashed trained in the use of Microsoft's wonderful new Operating System; Fister er whoops Vista. Vista is supposed to be Microsoft's answer to everthing including sliced cheese. Of course sliced cheese will now come with an End User Lisence Agreement that is liable to change without warning and prohibits you from actually eating the cheese.

Vista was also supposed to be released about 3 years ago but Microsoft discovered that the O/S sucked and started all over again. Consumer versions have been delayed until early next year for the same reason.(This worries me slightly).It has also cost more to create than was originally spent on the Apollo moon landing program, not that this means anything regarding quality or stuff like that.

Anyway it should be a good day looking at the nice shiny new Product, which will keep me in a job fixing the nice shiny new chaos that will probably come free with it. And of course there should be freebies, although the freebies I've got from Microsoft so far are'nt great 30 trials and a Moneybox that you have to assemble your self. (a bit like their software). This time around I hope to score something more useful like a pen or notepad.