My Lenovo X60 with Vista SP1 has been running smoothly since I installed SP1 on Friday. I have no issues to report. I did have a strange problem crop up on my Dell XPS 720 yesterday; Excel and Word 2007 failed to load (invalid program file). I initiated the Office 2007 repair, but that failed as well and blue screened the system. The dump analysis revealed a hard drive problem. I ran a check disk (ran without finding any issues), however the Office 2007 repair still failed. I had to reinstall Office 2007 which prompted me with the fact that an uninstall did not successfully complete, however it looks like the reinstall cleaned everything up. The good thing is that all my settings were saved, especially in Outlook which I customized quite a bit. Bizarre, I may run checkdisk again today to make sure my drive is ok.
This week the CTIA 2008 conference is in Las Vegas. This is the love to hate conference. It is sponsored by all the major cellular carriers (CTIA is their lobbying organization) which try to restrict our use of advanced technology on their networks, yet it is a forum for all that advanced technology. Microsoft will supposedly announce Windows Mobile 6.1, but who knows when we will see it since the carriers control release. This is where the Apple iPhone distribution model shines, when they provide a release date, all users can expect to see it on that date (can't wait until June...). We will have to watch out for any other announcements.
I am in a beta TypePad program to help enhance blog rendering and will be making what looks to be some minor tweaks to this blog. I use advanced templates which means I have to manually insert the new functions provided by TypePad. TypePad is working on mobile device rendering which won't come a day too soon in my book.
This week:
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