Vortexia's Secret

technology is a blessing and a curse. it helps you do things faster, and it helps you waste more time than you ever knew you could. it makes things easier, and it makes things so much harder. but you already know all of this. anybody who has touched a computer has experienced this phenomenon. i spent much of the morning getting my laptop ready once more. but this time, sadly, without XP Pro. mayhem and the little tech guy at the computer store seem to think that the upgrade may have been responsible for incapacitating my USB drives and requiring a replacement of some part of the power supply. and if not XP Pro, then service pack 2. i am still a bit skeptical. i paid some damn good money to get XP Pro and do not like being told that the 2 weeks that i had it the first time was all the use i'm gonna get out of them because it isn't safe to install them again. to me it doesn't make sense that a little program that is copied and installed can somehow then go in and go smashy smashy armageddon on my laptop's ass. i could see a logical connection between other software files not working correcly afterward, but having physical components and pieces of machinery not work doesn't make sense to me. but who knows.

so here's the big question... do i try it again or do i leave well enough alone? i have everything else i needed back on the computer now... antivirus, firewall, itunes, office suite, spyware remover..... of course i installed that stuff because 1) i like a highly safe computer, 2) it's about damn time that i get to use this thing again, and 3) because in reality i guess i know it's safer to run it without the upgrade with all the other bells and whistles than to risk the same problems all over again. i guess XP home really isn't all that horrible, but it does piss me off that the very same people who have been talking about how sucky the home system is compared to pro are not trying to back pedal and tell me it really isn't all that bad or all that inferior to pro. wtf. tell me the truth the whole time and tell me which version really is the truth. so anyway, that's where we're at with that.

oh, and if i do email posts during the vacation, then i'll probably just do it through the yahoo account and go back and erase all the little "do you yahoo?" lines after the vacation. it's really the most secure option. and to you guys who were getting defensive over gmail, i'm definitely not saying it's a bad system. i use it as my primary account for the blog. but it does show your email address in the sign in box even if you told it not to remember it, and it does keep the various addresses of your account (you know, the one with the long string of jargon) in the address bar. when you sign out of yahoo, you are signed out completely. you can't check the sign in box for the last used email address. you can't go to the account address. it's more secure in that sense. so that's why i'm using it for this purpose. it was never any diss of gmail. i do like it, just not for this one purpose.

so anyway, on to a much better post!