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...Dang it. I ran out of space in the title field. Blasted computers and their ability to only store a certain amount of characters. :)

So, how's that for a long title? Oh, and yes, Jessica, we do have to one-up each other. That's part of the fun of life. That's what it means to be an American. Hopefully, though, we can one-up each other and do it peaceably.

Okay, now on to the meat and potatoes of this post. Hmmm. Meat and potatoes. Sound good!

I have decided to take it upon myself to gather up all the usable links to cool webpages that have been accumulating in this blog for the last year and a half. There's a boat-load of them, but I think I can gather them up pretty easily. I'm only going to gather links to actual pages that do something and not include all the trivial links to pictures or sayings that may have been posted. We went through a phase back there when it was all we could do to lace the postings with as many links as possible. Most of these links were just photos or something fairly trivial. However, there have been many postings containing real links to actual web sites that many who read this blog could benefit by. So, it is incumbent upon me to make a gathering of links and put them all in one central location where everyone can enjoy them. How's it sound?

ps: Jason's Windows Vista Review
I think that Vista is definitely a step in some direction with the Windows operating system. I can't say right now whether I feel that it's a step forward or maybe just to the side. Windows XP has been a decent operating system for most people, but it does have an achilles heel: Administrator mode. Historically, it has been necessary to run Windows as Administrator or root user just to do most things. Most of us don't think twice about it. That's actually the way Windows was designed to run. This is inherently dangerous about this practice. If you run you computer as Administrator, any programs that infiltrate your computer gain Administrator rights. That means that they can go willy-nilly and install themselves as they will. However, if you run the computer with fewer access rights than Administrator, you protect yourself from those kinds of attacks. This is something that Vista is attempting to cause. Microsoft has finally awoken to the reality of the Unix model as a secure design. Unix has the philosophy that you don't need to be Administrator to run your programs, only to change system settings. So, on that front, Vista appears to be getting it right (we hope.) Where Vista really falls short is for users like myself who grew up in the DOS world and who organize their files very carefully on their hard disks. Vista tries to take that power away from the user with the Virtual Folders concept. As I was running Vista this afternoon, the Virtual Folders were driving me crazy. If I had to give a report right now on whether to upgrade from Windows XP to Vista, I would say that there really is no need to, unless you happen to have about 5 Gigs of disk space you don't mind giving up.