So I bought a new laptop a few months ago and I was determined not to pay for an OS, truthfully I don't think I have ever paid for an OS but this might have been the first one I was in the position to and well I said NOOOOO thanks.
Honestly I was very pessimistic, I knew this was something I wanted to try, more because I am cheap but also because I have used unix and linux at several jobs and I always liked it. Well it has been 3 months later and I am more happy every day with Ubuntu, I went to a user group meeting the other day and it has surpassed all my expectations, I don't think I will ever use Windows again, well except for at work...uggggg!
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I have been working on my new political blog. It is going pretty well and I am excited how things are progressing. I'll let everyone know about it when the time is right. In the mean time this blog will be more about regular stuff in my life. So on to my story.
So I program websites in Microsoft languages, I am a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (say that three times fast) yet I have gradually gravitated away from Microsoft, I am trying to become a SCJP, slowly but surely. But this morning I was reminded why I have developed such a displeasure with Microsoft.
My wife got a new Macbook for Christmas and she wanted her emails from her old windows computer put onto her Mac. I thought no big deal, I'll get it done before I go to work.
Two hours later I reminded why I come to hate Microsoft. I couldn’t import the emails right into Entourage (the Microsoft email program for the Mac) from Outlook on the old windows computer. Instead I had to install Thunderbird (the free email client related to Firefox) on the old computer, import the emails from Outlook into Thunderbird and then export out of Thunderbird in the .mbox format that Entourage could use. Is that insane? Wasn’t there someone at Microsoft maybe thinking that ‘hey people might want to move their emails from one Microsoft product to another Microsoft Product’ durrrr!!!!!!
Just stupid.
I was tempted to just stick with Thunderbird on the Mac except for the fact that my wife's parents spent all this money on Microsoft Office for the Mac because my Wife is afraid to edit documents in OpenOffice.
I am working on revamping my blog for Utah. Evidently leftyblogs doesn't like feedburner any longer so I will need to work on that but I am excited. Ogden even recently got a new drinking liberally, so that should be fun.
First off people have asked me if I am happy about the Democrats victories and I would describe it more as the feeling of having to go to the bathroom really badly while on a road trip and walking back to the car after visiting the rest stop, you are relieved that it is over but you wish it never would have happened.
Second I have an announcement, I know my blog has basically been dead the last month and mostly that was because I was doing stuff for the election but it is also because I am leaving Colorado for the red shores of Utah. My wife is graduating from CSU this December with a degree in aerospace engineering and she was offered a position out there that she has accepted. Her position starts January 1st but I have already found a new position that will start November 27th. I am going to be making a lot more money and I am excited start a life with her, buy a house and do all that stuff.
I am thinking about trying to start a soapblox out in Utah but I haven't even decided on a name or if it would even be worth it. I feel someone has got to try, 50 states...Dr. Dean. This blog will definitely not be as active for the next few months and if you a Colorado blog that is linked to me please feel free to remove me. Thanks again and I will miss all my Democratic friends in Colorado, hopefully we will be back soon but you never know.
This might not come as a surprise but this is nothing new. I went to various religious schools until the 10th grade. I remember we had to see a special "documentary" when I went to middle school at Beth Eden telling us how all the cartoons we watch were evil including the Smurfs, the cat evidently is named after a demon...go figure.
