OK. I'm a bit better

OK. I'm a bit better now and... I'm back! There's a lot of changes going on in my personal life right now, so I think everything just took it's toll. Anyway, it's good to be back!!

I was surfing the net and came across this interesting tidbit that, for some reason, struck a funny bone in me. It's about a church called the Kentucky Mountain Bible College. They are fighting to change the prefix on their phone number because it starts with "666", the "biblical mark of the beast".

It seems that Microsoft has finally discovered a technology called "wireless"! Remember way back when Microsoft felt that this thing called the internet would never amount to anything or go anywhere? It was only after it started really taking off for others that they panicked to catch up. Now, they seem all guns ahead for the "new" wireless technology. I suppose the thing that bothers me most about Microsoft is their collective ego. They need to get over themselves. If they would start producing software that didn't take 42 patches just to make it stable, it would be nice. Anymore, when I install Microsoft software, I am prepared to be bombarded with this fix or that fix for the next few weeks. It never fails. The public (you and I) is the test lab for Microsoft's software. That's ok, but should we really have to pay for that? I mean, I don't see them offering discounts for the crappy software they put out because we are crashing all the time. Case in point: I'm running Windows XP. Windows Explorer is virtually (no pun intended) unusable to me. When I pull up Explorer, within 3 minutes, it will bomb out. It disappears from my screen, my icons on my desktop disappear, and 5 seconds later, they reappear. I get no error message or warning of any kind. I have gone to the Microsoft website and found no reference to this phenomenon.

I came across an interesting article that made me stop and think about many things. The article is called "Living like there's no tomorrow". This was one of the lines that caught my attention in the article: "You see, I’ve learned that once you’re gone, all you are is stuff and paperwork for the living, details to be handled, assets to be dispersed. And then there’s the legacy, what survives you, who you were, who you touched, your family."