Another Reason to add to the list: "Why my Mother Doesn't want a GPS"

On our road trip to Canada, we borrowed my grandparents GPS. We were in the middle of Farmland, Quebec, when the melodious voice of the GPS rings throughout the car: "In 400 meters (we set it to metric), turn left; then board ferry."

Um...What?!

Sure enough, there is a ferry that goes from one end of some river, probably some part of the Saint Lawrence River, to the border of Quebec and Ontario. Excellent. But, as my mother pointed out, what would have happened if the ferry was closed. Frankly, I really don't want to know.

While on the ferry, the GPS showed us the picture of a car floating in the middle of the river, not even going in a straight line. We reach the other end of the river, and the female voice rings out again, "Alight from ferry, then turn left." Whatever.

This, by the way, is the same GPS that started misfiring on Auto-route 15 in Montreal, saying rapidly, non-stop, "Turn left, turn left, turn left, then, turn left..." with many repetitions and many "Turn right"s, and, finally, a "Turn reft."

We Made It: Happy Bithday!

Alright, everyone! Happy Birthday, Eppis Fun Gornisht! That's right, exactly, on this day, one year ago, Eppis Fun Gornisht was first created, on a hot summer evening. It's been a productive year, me writing and you, the readers, responding with you (usually) insightful comments.

I actually took the time to use a calculator to caculate the average amount of posts that were posted since Eppis Fun Gornisht was created: 2.384615. This average includes only all posts up to and including this post. The total posts were 31.

I also calculated the average number of comments posted on those 31 posts: 2.741935. This average includes only comments made before this post. Comments made on this post are not counted. The total number of posts were 85.

I want to take this time to thank everyone who made this year of blogging an exciting and funny. To everyone who reads this blog: I thank you all! HAPPY BIRHTDAY, EPPIS FUN GORNISHT!!! :)

XP Is Going off Market! Help!

Ok, everyone, it's finally come to it: Microsoft is pulling the plug on the best OS that hit the tech market that looks nice. (I mean, face it, 2000 and it's predecessors were everything except for pleasing to the eye.) Yes, XP is going off the market! HELP!

I've had some hands-on experience with Vista, finally. Needless to say, all that I've read about how crappy and horrible Vista is has now been verified. It stinks. Sure, I am happy that Microsoft addressed it's security problem, because IE7 has the best pop-up and junk like that, and that's not what Firefox. I think it's official: I have made the change to Firefox, and I ain't looking back. Microsoft, we are happy you see this, but darkening the screen every frieking we try to download something onto the RAM is overkill, don't you think?

Yes, I know I am sounding like Maximum PC here, but they're right.

When searching for a laptop, I found that you can still get XP Pro for an additional $99. Even though that's cheaper than buying the OS separate than before, it's still too much, considering that you could have gotten it free with your PC like you can now with Vista.

In short, I'm stuck getting Vista Home Premium, but I'm going to make sure that I can run iTunes and Firefox before I say that Vista may have a chance. What do you think?