Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com

I think even when go 15 years without a confirmed BSOD sighting, and our kids look at us funny when we try to explain what they were, there will still be a population complaining about "all the BSODs." ***!!!*** PARITY ERROR PANIC ***!!!*** anyone?
[Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

You know, I've only seen blue screens in two places in the last few years...

1. Crappy hardware...usually video drivers from ATI...

and more interestingly,

B. The Airport.  I travel a lot, and I see a BSOD nearly ever trip.  Usually some touch screen e-ticket kiosk blows chunks and it's left like that for hours.  We flew back from Las Vegas today and saw a very nice Blue Screen of Death actually OVER head above the Alaska Air ticket counters.  It was not a typical BSOD since the monitor it was on didn't like the refresh rate of this particular BSOD.  But with the over-hertz-y-ed flickering and the nice, regular columns of DLLBase, DateStamp and module name were very recognizable.  Needless to say, I continually chuckle that some schmuck doesn't just set the thing to restart automatically.  It is a kiosk after all.

What is this crap?  I noticed that my tabs in Windows Messenger 4.7 disappeared recently...when I renabled them I got this:

"We are removing all tabs except the Alerts tab from Windows Messenger.
However, MSN Messenger 5.0 continues to provide tabs, including a link to this content. Go to the Messenger Web site to install the latest version of MSN Messenger.We apologize for any inconvenience."

It's this kind of cheese that is turning me off to the whole MSN brand.  You'd expect this lameness from AOL, but what's the deal?  If they are discontinuing WIndows Messenger and forcing us to move to MSN Messenger then just TELL us.  (And make the install easy without having the two IM clients fight!)

Merry freakin' Christmas, my computer is slowly turning against me. 

My wife and I are going to Vegas for the holidays so I will see you all when I get back! If I don't blog much, it's because I hit on a hard 17 at blackjack and am too depressed to come to the computer.

Cookie Viewing. I've been sort of vaguely looking for a cookie management application for Internet Explorer for a while. I've tried out a couple, and been generally unimpressed with their speed or features. However, I've finally found one that seems worth keeping: IECookiesView.
[Larkware News]

Snazzy!  This will be a good companion to IEHTTPHeaders!

Taken. So i have a Tivo full of Taken episodes, the trailers looked promising, but i just can't get into it
[Simon Fell]

You're preaching to the choir, Simon.  I've got my ReplayTV full of Taken, and I even used "High Quality Mode."  I can't bring myself to delete them, but I feel like I was taken by the Spielberg name and nothing else.  Hm...I've also considering ReplayTV-ing all 24 episodes of 24 and watching them back to back to back...maybe that will pull me out of my recent disillusionment over the quality of TV lately.