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I saw *the* most delicious thing ever on ./ today. This following email complaining to someone at MS about the difficulty of installing something from them on windows XP, from 2003.

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don’t drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Now are you ready for the kicker? the author of this email?
Bill Gates
Yes that’s right, Gates himself sent that email to the XP group. When asked about the email, this was his response. “There’s not a day that I don’t send a piece of e-mail … like that piece of e-mail.”

This is his last week at MS.. I think I might miss him a little

So my links block on the righ hand side has been re-organized and updated. Anthony’s amusing blog over at http://www.anthonysullivan.net is still there, as is Stales at http://www.angry-cripple.com and I have also added a few more, including two very good friends of mine. One is Maddy, who is, well, quite insane really, you can check hers out at the link there, which is http://www.maddgoddess.com and finaly I have added Caitlin, who is the very reason I got to met and know all the wonderful girls of PMS and my fellow guy gamers in h2o, and so MANY (were talking 4 digits here) friends scattered around the gaming world now hers is http://www.sun3v.com. Check them all out, as I can assure you they are all far more entertaining than mine likely is! haha

Yes, the weekend was indeed insane. Between friday morning and sunday late afternoon there was a fluctuating number of roughly 25-30 people in my house at any given point.

Stale had several other friends on the Penny Arcade forums who had birthdays, so they came to town as well, plus a large contingency of their little social circle from all over the us (plus a poor guy from Ireland who suffered an 8 hour flight and jet lag just to join in!) The house was a nonstop party and it was fun as hell. Well into 2 thousand dollars in alchohol was consumed, enough food to feed a small nation was cooked in cycles regularly and destroyed in minutes each time. (Chris makes a glorious cheesecake that I would happily move to Seattle to be able to have all the damn time!)

Fortunately there were no casualties of war this time, like last, where one of Dan’s couches was utterly destroyed by the projectile contents of an over intoxicated stomach, however I found out after the fact Kovak did have a little mishap all over the wood floor of my downstairs office, but it was quickly cleaned up (although the carpet outside the door of the room, at the base of the stairs does indeed bear some battle scars, come to think of it.)

Good times were had by all, there was more rockband going on that I think Harmonix ever envisioned, tons of Smash brothers and Mario Kart on the Wii up in the game room, plenty of pool (and weird schenanigans ON the pool table), tons of drinking games (the concept of Zoom still makes my head hurt) and I also learned when trying to find peace and quiet at 6am when everyone else is up still yelling, sleeping in the back seat of a Honda Accord coupe is NOT a good solution.

Then there was my actual birthday on monday… good lord. I must say, I was not looking forward to my birthday this year. It is the first time in 7 years (since the beginning really) that my birthday did not fall right on MML week, so I was not going to be home in Louisville with a few HUNDRED friends around, plus another 1,500 more gamers as well for several days. It was just me, and work, and Dan and Summer around and that was it, I have to admit i was really not planning to enjoy my birthday. However, Dan surprised me with the most insanely awesome present ever that morning at work, two front row seats to see Eddie Izzard live tonight! There is someone very special I would like to take more than anyone else in the world, but sadly she is not available.. but its ok, a great time shall still be had. Also, my facebook profile is setup to text me when someone writes on my wall, I left this on because at MOST I get 2-3 wall posts a week, if Im lucky. I had to turn the damn feature OFF yesterday. I’ve never felt so appreciated by so many people, my wall was literally destroyed with an untold number of posts, as was my myspce profile (by mostly the same people, LOL!) It certainly cheered me up a ton. Thanks to EVERYONE who left me a message on Aim, Myspace, Facebook, voicemail, email, and everything else. I love being reminded how many friends I have scattered all over the country, and the world, thanks to my love of gaming and all my traveling related to it. Its kind of cool to know I could be stranded just about anywhere in the US and know I have great friends not far away in some odd direction

Wohoo! I have overhauled my site as you can tell, if you check it regularly. An entirely new Theme for starters, which was hard for me. I LOVE my old web 2.0 looking, rounded cornered aero stylish black with green and gray. After all, green and black are my favorite colors. However I decided to go with a widget capable theme so that all that nav bar stuff on the right no longer had to be hand coded by me whenever I wanted to add a feature.

This theme, obivously, is. It was hard convincing myself to get away from the green and black, but its really growing on me more and more, and the response from my friends who have been following my site has been universally positive as well.

Also I added a new module that will show a random pic from my picasa gallery, as well as my current twitter feed. Along with that, when I make a new post from now on, an entry will be generate for me to twitter, which by default, will also go into my facbook now! LOL Then it will of course show up here on the site, come to think of it, in the twitter box.

Good lord, I just might cause the internet to fold in upon itself and implode, I should maybe rethink this plan…

One of my favorite sites to check in on daily is Garfield Minus Garfield. They simply take a Garfield strip that includes just Jon and Garfield, rip out any images of Garfield, and you are left with the crazy ramblings of a lonely depraved man..

www.garfieldminusgarfield.net

Today’s I especially like… kinda feels like me today

For anyone who cares, I have a new blog up at http://dnd.sargonas.com which follows the adventures of the D&D 4th Edition campaign I am partaking in, with blogs from the point of views of the characters. Check it out if you are into that sort of thing.

Yeah so two days ago I got pulled over on GA 400 by an Alpharetta cop on a motorcycle, for doing 70 in a 65 zone.. what the hell? Its GA 400.. if your doing under 80 your lucky to not get plowed down by someone in the right lane doing 90… and here I get zinged for doing 70.. and being passed by 20 cars in the 3 lanes left of me!

So he pulls me over, walks up to the passenger side of my car, and with out wasting time hands his Laser gun though my passenger window and says to me “I clocked you doing 70mph.. if you look the left number on this readout is your speed, the right is the distance from you to me.” And I have just enough time to read its 70 alright, and before I can even react he pulls it out the window and says “I’ll be citing you for 5mph over the limit sir, one moment please” and walks back to his bike and fills out the form. Watching him in the mirror I can see he going rather quick about it, as he aparently has most of the form pre-filled out, and just had to add in the info related to me. He walks back up, asks me to sign the notice of reciept, and hands me my copy, says good day and walks off. Whole thing lasted a ridiculous 7 minutes… dont know what the hell the story was here with the drive though pull over but whatever…

So my birthday is in a week and two days, if anyone cares. Dan is having a ton of people into town because between the 21st and the 24th he has 4 friends with birthdays, including me.. should be good times, assuming anyone here remembers I have one too, heh. Aside from that though I expect to spend my actual birthday alone.. I had really big plans this year too.. I was gona take “her” to vegas for a 4 day weekend…