Sunday thoughts

Ok, another Sunday, and ever so slowly spring is coming to paradise. In the lowlands anyway. With the above normal snowpack and weeks before snowmelt normally starts, winter is still in the mountains with promises of more in the near future. Ok, enough about the weather.

How about Microsoft? Interesting article in the New York Times today about Vista - requires login. Even the senior managers at Microsoft had more than enough problems with Vista that they redid the marketing strategy from "Vista Ready" to "Vista Capable", meaning not all PC can be upgraded to Vista. In short, either don't upgrade or buy a new computer and be ready to do some more work making it work. And not everything will work.

Gee, maybe you just can't make a silk desktop software package out of a bad operating system. And maybe should whisper "Edsel" to them?

How about George? His veto of the Congressionally passed bill on interrogation techniques and other issues. It seems he wants to go down in history as the most monterous President in history for human rights, especially ignoring our history of following the Geneva Conventions. What doesn't he understand about fair treatment of human beings?

He has to be the worst President at understanding international diplomacy, human rights, and prisoners of war. We should set the standard for the world than stoop to the lowest level. When will we learn we can't keep being dictators on global politics and we have to lead with integrity. But then we never had anyway, so it would be a new thing for us. Not? Read your history on the number of countries we've overthrown with our military or supporting military rulers or dictators.

Don't buy that? Try Chile, Pakistan, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. and now George sets a new standard for this country, forgetting our past and ignoring our future.

How about the universe. It's now 13.73 billion years old, plus or minus 120,000 years. Just a few lifetimes. An error margin longer than modern human history. And we think we're that important in the universe?

Iraq. Congress wants to know where all the billions of oil money has gone. Because it hasn't gone to the country or the people, but foreign banks. Yup, all the money we're spending on the reconstruction including the oil industry, and the Iraqis are pocketing most of the money and almost all the profits into personal accounts.

Gee, why am I not surprised? We're talking $100 Billion gross revenues in 2007-08. So how much is missing? No one seems to know.

Parting jesture? Melody Gardot and cats.

I'm off for the week, so please have a good week.