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All posts for the month July, 2008

Who would actually believe it? Philly finally has a championship. That’s rights Arena Football fans, the Philly Soul won at the Arena Bowl and are the champs. It was quite a game actually. Both teams traded scores back and forth through most of the first half, and Philly finally came up with the first defensive stop, as well as coming up with an interception. The Soul were up with only 2 minutes remaining in the game, and the onside kicks came into play. By the end of the game, the Soul only won by 3 and I had to take an extra pill for my blood pressure.

I finally got in my first 18 holes of golf. Take note, this really is only my 3rd time touching a set of clubs. I didn’t really expect much actually, which really helped. Old Homestead Golf Course is right across the street from my office, so we decided to start there. I was up and down, shooting 76 for the first 9 and eventually cleaning up with 66 for the back 9 (that’s a total of 142 if you couldn’t do the math in your head). While that put me in the official category of “Sucks,” I did learn a lot. I unfortunately tend to top the ball a lot, which really doesn’t help. I also slice off the tee like a madman. However, practice makes perfect. But, I also learned way back in high school that “perfect practice makes perfect,” so I have a lot of work to do. At any rate, I picked up a lot and felt a lot better when I drained a 40 foot put on the last hole.

OK, so I’m sure everyone knows that I am “not exactly a big fan of Windows.” We have all heard it before, so I won’t dwell on it. At this point, I am about 90% Windows free. Most of that, however, is for work. The Novell network stuff still relies on Windows for basic management. The current version of ConsoleOne (Netware administrator) is written in Java and actually runs better on my Linux box then it does on any Windows machine I have tried. So I still run Windows XP in a VMware desktop on my Gentoo box. I’ve come to find a small warm spot in my heart for XP, almost enough to call it “not too terribly bad.” Don’t worry, that’s as good as it will get.

Anyway, enter Vista. I decided to give it a whirl in a fresh VMware session. All I can say is Oh. My. God. I gave the thing 2 virtual processors and 2.5GB of RAM and it was still awful. I personally think the way the new Windows Explorer (My Computer, etc) design is terrible and totally difficult to use. I know the argument is that “it is just different,” but I don’t think so. It made simple things that I do hundreds of times a day so much harder. It only took me a half hour of playing around before I killed the virtual machine and wiped it into oblivion. It was that bad.

I guess if you really don’t have anything important to do with a computer (like spider solitare) Vista is OK. But really, if you need to get stuff done, stick with XP.

The Wachovia Spectrum

The official word came out today, the Spectrum will be closed and demolished sometime next year. I believe the plans are to build “Philly Live!, a destination retail, dining and entertainment district.”

I’ve been to quite a few games at the Spectrum, and it certainly did have “character.” Let’s hope they will sell the seats to fans like they did with the old Vet, I could really use another pair…

Wow, it has been a long time. Everything is pretty much running status quo. Same old same old as they say. Emily is doing great and has now started day care, which means I am in charge of transportation since the daycare is right across the street from my office.

I also bought a set of golf clubs in the hopes of fiddling around on the links. I need to start out at the driving range and get a bit of consistency before I actually go and play a round. I just need to find the time I guess.

We still have plenty of projects to finish at the house, but I don’t see the need to hurry to get them done. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow.