Month: February 2007

I recently found a bunch of old LP’s (records, vinyls, 33’s, whatever you want to call them). I’ve been wanting to play them, but didn’t have a turntable. Well, tonight, the Internet/cable TV went out, so I thought it would be a great time to play them. My mother had a turntable. I went over to her house to get it. I asked where it was. She said if it wasn’t in the cabinet, it was in the “yard sale” pile. I couldn’t believe it. It was sitting in the shed in freezing temperature. I have rescued it from it’s prison. It is now playing me Rubber Soul by the Beatles.

What bothers me the most is that my mother had me save the speakers for the player for several years now. Now I find that the turntable was not wanted anymore, and was going to get rid of it. Shame on her.

I used Vista for the first time the other day at a customer’s house. I wouldn’t call it a “bad” experience, but it wasn’t a great one also. I was mostly indifferent. I did however like the Aero interface with the transparency and flowing windows (and especially the preview over the task bar windows). Well, I just happened upon something called the Beryl Project. I don’t need Vista to get that. Beryl does everything Aero does, and more. It even does “wobbly windows” (taking me a while to get used to that one though). It even has a few Mac like things, like viewing all the windows at once. What is even better about Beryl over Aero is that it works on older graphics cards. My laptop would never run Aero, but it runs Beryl just fine.