Windows Live has this cool thing where it reminds you about your contact’s birthdays (the “Birthday Calendar” I think…). And yes, I’ve come to rely on this feature. Unfortunately, I can’t quite bring myself to trust the system completely, so whenever I get the alerts, I also get this nagging doubt that it’s not really that person’s birthday and that I’ve really just misentered their contact info…

Wow Windows XP is showing it’s age…the RTM installation disc I have is reacting badly to the >127GB hard drive I’m trying to install on…(yes, I know the way to correct this is to use SP1…which is why I’m slipstreaming SP3 onto a new installation disc right now…)

Hey! xcopy on Windows 7 seems to have a new option: /J (“Copies using unbuffered I/O. Recommended for very large files.”) Cool!

Command just used to build the Windows XP with SP3 disc: oscdimg -n -b"amd64\boot\ETFSBOOT.COM" -lWXP_VOL_EN_SP3 -t04/14/2008,07:53:59 -g -h -maxsize:4096 "E:\CD Build\windows_xp_sp3" "E:\CD build\windows_xp_sp3.iso". I’m probably a short DVD burn away from finding out just how wrong that was…(much later)…hey, that actually worked!

Oo…coool…Windows XP does have regional settings for Filipino…too bad the timezone stuff doesn’t have one (instead I end up guessing…”it’s close enough to Singapore, right?” note that this results in the timezone being "Malay Peninsula Standard Time")

Who makes & sells a DVD drive that can’t play DVD’s?!?!?! I mean, I could sort of understand a bare OEM drive…but these are boxed retail drives from HP! Grrr…

Now playing: (nothing but the sound of computer fans)