I bought a new car...

I had been meaning to buy a new car, and finally did it...

I bought a 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid. It has Sync from Microsoft, so it adds voice command to the iPhone, which is super sweet.

So far, I love it. I couldn't be happier. Of course, I'm going from having no car payment to having a new expense, but I will be spending about half on gas, so that'll take some of the sting off...

Vista strikes again...

I used to have two windows XP machnes in my office, and used to be able to print to their printers from my mac.

Now I've got a Vista machine, and cannot get the damn thing to connect to the shared printers.

I've tried everything, and have resorted to creating pdf files on the mac, saving them to a pocket drive, or copying them to the vista machine over the network (yes, I can see/modify files) and then printing them from windows directly...

Very frustrating.

MobileMe sucks

I just tried using MobileMe, and the first thing it did was create two calendars in my Outlook, labeled "Work" and "Home". There's just one problem. I use the default calendar and keep everything there. Lame. I cancelled it immediately, so I didn't have to pay $60 for such garbage.

My XBOX 360 finally got the Red Ring of Death

Well, it's finally happened. It got the Red Ring of Death...
Shipping box is on it's way...

iPhone 2.0.1 firmware update helps, but...

The 2.0.1 firmware update released last night seems to help a little:
- faster backups and sync
- most things on phone respond faster
- phone seems a bit more stable

My biggest gripe about the sync process is that it doesn't seem to confirm changes to Outlook data. That being said, it seems to be making those decisions correctly.

So far, I'm very happy.