Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Get Vista, Office Ultimate for free

Office 2007 UltimateStill waiting for the right time to upgrade your PC from Windows XP or Office 2003 the the latest Ultimate versions?

Now may be that time as Microsoft is offering the upgraded software for free. The catch? You must take part in the Windows Feedback Program.

Besides taking the occasional survey, Microsoft will ask you to install a small program that records your everyday use so that the company may use it to improve future versions of the products.

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Santa mauled by reindeer

I love the reinactment. You can see the guy’s holding the reindeer’s head down and the deer’s trying to pull away.

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MiPod

iPod ClassicOver six years after the first iPod was released in October of 2001, I finally got my hands on one yesterday.

As an early birthday/Christmas present to myself, I bought the 80 GB black iPod Classic at Target yesterday. They offered a free $25 dollar gift card with purchase of the $250 device, which was one of the better deals I could find.

With the thousands of songs I’ve collected over the years, I thought I’d probably need the 160 GB version but after checking the file size of the music folder on my computer, I saw that it read only just over 14 GB. It’s amazing how many MP3 files 1 GB of storage can hold.

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Uneventful jury duty ends

After seven days of utter boredom, my privileged duty to the United States government, or at least a county in Ohio, adjourned yesterday. Hopefully it will be a long time before I have to return to Franklin County’s Court of Common Pleas as a potential juror or otherwise.

Besides the couple hours spent in preparation for a murder case which never happened, which I mentioned in the last post, I read. And sat. And sat and read and sat and read and read and sat some more. And after fighting off falling asleep in my folding chair because I was so tired of reading, I read some more. While I sat. And finally they let us out for lunch where I ate while I sat and read.

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