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I purchased a laptop a little less than a year ago. I will not mention the name but they do most of their sales online.  Anyway I was forced to have vista installed. I was not all that to happy about that for starters.  I opened the box turned it on and thus the setup began.

I made sure to turn off the windows update.  A few months ago while I was volunteering at a youth camp I was using my laptop to do some work for them. They had a wireless signal however it was very prone to outages. For whatever reason windows update attempted to update itself eventhouhg the updater was turned off. I was unable to stop the update and i guess halfway through the updated I lost signal and the file was then corrupetd. I tried to update the computer a few days later once I was back home and on a more stable connection.  It would not let me update it nor roll back to an earlier date with windows restore.  So i just let it do its thing turned off the auto updater again.

A few  weeks ago guess what it did AGAIN turned on the auto updater downloaded and then rebooted on me mid project. Thank goodness I did not loose anything.  After it said it could not install the updates and then rolled itself back and then rebooted.

Once rebooted I tried to login that is where the fun begins.  It attempted to login and then promptly told me the shell32.dll file was either missing or corrupt do i want to continue? I clicked yes, a  few more prompts later I found myself logged out. By this point I was so pissed off I just left the darn thing sit for two weeks.

Now any computer geek would then reboot into safe mode with networking download a copy of a shell32.dll file reboot and bam we aer back in business. O NO vista will not allow this.  I tried to reboot the darn thing into  safe mode.  So i jump on my trusty desktop open up google. To my suprise I find that in order to use the safe mode feature you must activate it in windows. WHAT THE ……. This would have been nice to know when I had a computer up and running so i could turn it on.

PLAN B.  Now i get the oppertunity to go to my local computer geek store buy a converter that will allow me to plug my laptop hard drive into my desktop. I will then promptly scan for viruses and spyware.  The only problem with this plan is finding a shell32dll file for windows vista

CURSE YOU MICROSOFT I VOW TO BUY A MAC AS MY NEXT MACHINE.  I was actually planning on getting one this just give me more of an excuse and reason to do it I will keep you all updated.

Over the last few weeks I have become addicted to some really cool websites. I thought I would spend a little bit of time talking about each one and why I have become addicted to them.

MyBlogLog.com is a blogging community where members can keep track of who is reading their blogs as well as find other blogs they are intrested in. Not only is it a great source of traffic for your blog it also helps target readers to your blog that share in the same type of common interests. I have spent a lot of time watching who is reading my blog and seeing what they are blogging about. I have really not figured out how I have gotten addicted do it but its great. I would recommend anyone who has a blog sign up for an account and watch your community of friends and fans grow.

Technorati is another blogging type community where you can connect with people who share the same common interests as well as create a group of friends and fans around your blog.

StumbleUpon has to be one of the greatest creations of the web 2.0 era. StumbleUpon is a database of sites that users have submitted that they have liked it. I currently have a plugin for my FireFox browser that allows me to click a button and randomly chooses a site to display based on categories I chose when I signed up.

I would recommend that everyone go try out these sites if you are a blogger or just simply wanting to find ways to help kill time.

I find it quite interesting that Steve Jobs big shot of Apple is almost a majority stock holder of disney and is on both boards of apple and disney. I also heard that a top google employee joined the board of apple can we say mega merger.

Read about Google and Apple

Read about steve jobs and disney

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I have added a cool feature to the site that pulls current news articles from digg.com

Exclusive: Apple Computer is working feverishly on the design of a new Macintosh computer that the company hopes will strengthen its position in the education sector when it goes on sale later this year, AppleInsider has learned.
The new low-cost PC, which will act as a replacement for Apple’s now defunct eMac line, appears to be on track to catch the latter half of the 2006 educational buying season. Learn More

I was listing to the CNET.com’s Buzz Out Loud Podcast the other day and found 2 things to be very interesting