I was lucky enough to get a Nintendo Wii when Amazon had a few for sale last week. After seeing what they're going for on eBay, I decided to put mine up for sale. If I can make a decent profit on it, I'll sell it and wait to possibly get a new one. If not, I'll just be happy with what I've got, and keep it.
I took the plunge today and installed the release version of Windows Vista Business on my work computer. So far, most things work, though I hit a nasty bug during the installation that left me unable to see anything on my screens, though I found a workaround.
So far, the only app that won't work (refuses to install) is the RASM software for managing our Enterasys Roamabout Wireless Switch.
Soooo, now that the Republicans have lost, Rush Limbaugh says he didn't really like them anyway:
The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?" Because the stakes are high. Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat Party and liberalism does.
Translation: I'll say or do anything to keep the Republicans in power. I'll lie, pretend to believe things I don't, and say whatever they ask me to, just because they're Republicans. How can even the die-hard people listen to him, when he doesn't even believe what he's saying himself?
One of my favorite 60 Minutes correspondents, Ed Bradley, died of leukemia today at the age of 65. He was always great at keeping such a cool exterior while asking hard, probing questions. Rarely combative, he'd get people to own up to things, and say more than they probably would have liked to, just because they were having an intimate conversation with such a likable guy. Thanks for all your hard work, Ed.
For the first time in 42 years, the Governor's job and both houses of the Iowa state legislature will be in the hands of Democrats. David Yepsen, of the Des Moines Register, has a look at what this should yield. Of particular interest to us is the bullet point about spending more money on the state universities, so that we can attempt to slow the rate of tuition increases we've inflicted on the students. Here in the IT department, our budgets have not kept pace with the technologies we've implemented, we have several programs that we initially started small (and cheap) that have turned out to be quite popular, which turns out to not be such a good thing, when you don't have the money to grow the programs that rapidly. Here's to hoping the Democrats make good on that, and we can get our house in order.
