December 25, 2006 Part II

We return to Washington, DC tomorrow evening - picking up my dog - 1/2 lab 1/2 golden retreiver. All dog owners are crazy about their respective dogs, but mine is truly special (at least to me). She actually understands spoken english - not just reading my commands and facial expressions - she understands what I'm saying - it's incredible. We go running every morning - keeps me in shape and her in shape as well. On another topic, the MS Vista bashers were out in full-force bashing MS and Vista's famed security claims. I run both Ubuntu Linux (in a VM Ware Player VM) and Windows XP on my laptop. I don't know why I'd want to switch to Vista, but my gut tells me that MS will stop supporting XP SP2 at some point and we'll all be forced to change. Time will tell. but I want to get all that I can out of XP SP2 and Linux until that day.