Technology is indeed wonderful

The world wouldn’t be able to function without it. It would, however, probably survive the advent of Windows Vista.

I’m not exactly sure about my own acquisition of Vista, as I’ve mentioned before. It seems like wherever you turn, you can find a million reasons as to why you should, and shouldn’t get yourself a copy of that vaulted software, until you end up not even caring. Honestly, with all the fanboys and anti-fanboys around the block these days, it’s hard to find yourself being objective about something anymore. Even Tycho has reservations about his own pertinent upgrade.

I’ll probably be getting it ‘because everyone else is’, though I might consider using Ubuntu as my primary OS instead, with Vista being relegated to something that I’ll use for kicks. Honestly, I really don’t see the point in it; it doesn’t offer me anything that I require other than improved aesthetics. It doesn’t give me better font management, it doesn’t give me better colour management, it doesn’t even make the shell skinning process any easier than it was in XP. I mean, Aero looks nice, but I know it’ll get old on me real fast, and I’d like the ability to be able to swap shells at will, if you know what I mean. Granted, XP never exactly had a very user-friendly skinning engine, but at least I know it works.

I haven’t exactly been using my O2 XDA II to its fullest potential ever since I got it a few years ago. Well, just yesterday, all that has changed. After browsing around a few sites, I was surprised to see the abundance of applications and enhancements available for my Pocket PC’s outdated operating system. I had, in fact, considered installing something like NetBSD over its Microsoft counterpart, but decided against it, for the horrors that could perhaps come with such a decision. I have, however, managed to get Blender onto my little thingamajig, which is probably an achievement that few would dare accomplish. Amazing what PDAs can do these days; even CAD isn’t out of the question for a tiny XScale processor.

You’ll note, of course, that I also have a new T-shirt design up on my store. The story behind the design is really quite amusing, actually; it spawned out of watching my friend vandalize his tabletop during a lecture and tagging off with the trademark of a phrase. It stuck in my head, and I promptly spit it out in Illustrator. It’s also my new Pocket PC wallpaper, which is amazing in itself, as I’ve been using the default wallpaper and theme ever since I first got it. I know I suck.

Vandalism Is Hip

I really like the fresh look to it, the way it seems so Web 2.0, yet retains the feel of a communist propaganda poster. It’s also worth noting that it’s the first time I used Scriptographer, specifically to enhance the look of the little bubble box right there, though I did do some manual adjustment of anchor points after the script had worked its initial magic. I think I’ll be using a lot more of such interesting tools in the future.

I know the right column on this blog is in serious need of an update, what with my extensions to my extended life and all, but also because I’m about to embrace Blogger‘s label functions. You can already see some of them at the bottom of this post. Hopefully they’ll make my posts much more organized and easier to browse through than being merely arranged by random, arbitrary dates.

And I’m planning to add a Google search field as well. Will they ever find a place that they can’t permeate with their unbelievably awesome search functions?

One wonders. And I still have a Maths test tomorrow to study for; Physics didn’t exactly go along very nicely as I had planned. Even with the win over Thailand. So much for good omens.

   

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