Practical Useful

Sorry if you are getting bored with this particular meme, but two interesting articles on the subject of Vista’s failings have come to light. I’ve covereda this twice before but there is more and more material out there on the web backing up my point.

Firstly Alex St. John, CEO of WildTangent a game publishing house and veteran of Microsoft where he developed the first ever DirectX, explains that ‘Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming’ as it’s security model makes downloading and running games very difficult. This all asside from the DRM-induced difficulties I spoke about before.

Secondly Microsoft has admitted that many PCs will be unable to replay HD-DVDs because the OS will disable this feature to comply with DRM. The Times Online Business section is carrying the story.

I have Bronchitis and feel terrible. Obviously I’m fit enough now to sit up in bed and use the computer but this is still in between bouts of coughing and a fever that will not bugger off until I have sweated my way through every piece of clothing I own and flooded the matress.

This came on during New Year’s Day, though I didn’t think it was anything other than a cold. The next day I’d driven half way to Hull before deciding that a) I might well make it to Hull but would probaly spend the rest of the week there Ill in the Hotel bed b) I could turn around and go home and be ill there instead and c) I wish I’d taken these decisions earlier. The drive home was fairly uncomfortable but I managed it safely and went to bed. I’ve largely been there since.

Doctor didn’t think there was any bacterial infection but prescribed an anti-biotic to take but only if it didn’t start to clear up in a couple of days and on account of my history of athsma. I like Doctors who don’t dish them out like sweeties… seems like I dont need them after all at the moment.

What’s annoying is I was ready to go back to work, I was looking forward to it and I know being off is screwing up timetables for my colleagues Oh well, hopefully I’ll be right as rain by the weekend.