It's Monday!

I survived another weekend. Kitty was sick again. I gave her a bit more hair-ball gel and changed her water. She seems OK otherwise. It rained again. Score one for Weatherbug.

"Heroes" is back from reruns tonight. I don't know yet if I care. I watched "Ugly Betty" on streaming video yesterday. I hadn't missed anything. I felt even the Vanessa Williams character was having an off night. With Daniel fooling around in fountains, can shark jumping be far behind?

Did they have to cast Leslie Jordan imbd profile as the gossip writer? I'm still recovering from his time on "Boston Legal."

I tuned into "Desp. Housewives" live and was disappointed this week: no Andrew. Gabby, however, had perhaps her best scene in a year. Every time she ignores her husband and does her own thing Lynnette reminds me of the SIL.

Ryan Carnes who played Andrew's lover two seasons ago was in a "Dr. Who" in pig-faced latex makeup recently. He's getting more work. Good on him. (Nathan writes to tell me it wasn't Ryan under the makeup. :/)



Reading a web board I saw the holy grail reason to update to CS3 (Creative Suite 3). No, it isn't because it has Universal apps native on Intel-based Macs. When you (accidentally) click on the logos at the top of the toolbox the damned software doesn't launch a browser to advertise Adobe products anymore! Fantastic! Now all I need is to rob a bank.

CS3 retails for $1799.99.

Forget it. The Mac is PowerPC anyway.

I'm tired of wankers on tech sites complaining, claiming a virtual apocalypse with their system(s) and offering scant detail. Slashdot has a "story" about Quicktime causing Windows Vista to blue-screen (BSOD) but only when playing .MOV files from a local hard disk on a particular Toshiba Tablet PC. It's 2007. Even on Microsoft's products, the only thing that should do that is a hardware or hardware driver problem, not a userland program.

Given the infamous problems with the early shipping NVidia graphics drivers for Vista (and perhaps other brands too), I wouldn't look at Quicktime as the culprit. Fascinatingly, on Windows in "Quicktime Preferences" Apple includes an "Advanced" tab which lets you alter how video is played back by the system: using GDI only (in a kind of Quicktime "Safe mode") or with various Direct X accelerations. Since Windows 95, Microsoft has included the ability to turn off different acceleration features to troubleshoot. Bah.