More Vista Woes

After a week of random “Windows Explorer has stopped working” errors, (where I’m literally just viewing files/folders… nothing to exotic like, oh let’s say, copy-n-pasting!  The bleeder keeps crashing on me!)

Today I return to my laptop from a 10 minute break only to find the login screen. Oh, guess what… Vista just did a forced reboot on me (again)!!!  Happy happy joy joy!  I was only in the middle of some tricky .NET work where I had all my applications left open so I could resume work “seamlessly”.

Now my head hurts from where I smacked it on my desk muttering “WTF! Why…!!!“.  So then I go ahead and rant (blog) about it… causing me to waste more time. Not helping myself here, am I?

Back to work now. (once I’ve checked my Facebook, Flickr and Last.fm )

Matey!

Not that I’m offended by the word, but whenever someone calls me “matey” … I get a sudden flash of this in my mind!

Windows Vista’s forced and unwanted reboot

Annoying is one word to describe it… Stupid would be another! What am I talking about? Windows Vista’s badly timed and restrictive reboot strategy after every “important” system update.

I have experienced this a few times in the past, where I usually take the option to delay the reboot. However today I was away from my computer (making a cup of tea) - so Vista forced the reboot!

The most annoying issue is that I’m in the middle of some web development, with all sorts of applications open; Firefox, IE7, Photoshop CS2, Notepad++ (with lots of PHP files open), plus a few instances of Windows Explorer. Luckily, I’d saved all my work before I left my computer… but it’s really interrupted my work-flow!! (It took me at least 10 minutes to get the mentioned set-up back).

I mean why is this happening at 11am on a working day?! Why is this happening at all?!

It seem that I’m not the only one experiencing this “feature”:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=698

… and follow-up:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39288579,00.htm

Luciano Pavarotti - A tribute

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Which File Extension are You?

Great! Now I’m a GIF! or is that JIF — however you’re meant to bloomin’ pronounce it these day!

Which Programming Language am I?

I’m such a copycat!

Which Programming Language are You?

This comes as no surprise to Dan!