Dateline NBC PWNED

It's been written multiple times all over the web, so all I'll say is that the media can be a bunch of dumbasses sometimes. I took a class in college about the power of the media in politics, and what happened here also shows the power of media on everyday people if Dateline has "exposed" Defcon to the "people in Kansas". What I think is great is that it appears that it was a fed that tipped off the Defcon organizers! :)

DailyTech article
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=653
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6760541-1.html?tag=bubbl_2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvmkxO5hoQ

Windows Vista sucks

Got a new Lenovo Thinkpad T61 14" widescreen recently. Unfortunately, while I was patiently waiting for a standard 14" screen that never came (not sold to consumers anymore) they removed the XP Home option. Plus it ended up being more expensive...oops.

Anyways. Vista is a horrible resource hog that makes an older laptop at least three generations behind (T40) with XP seem faster. I can't believe how bad it is considering all the hype beforehand. I would even say it is worse than Windows ME. That service pack can't come soon enough. In the interim, will be looking into dual booting with an XP partition.