Nvidia drivers.

I am not a fan of the Nvidia display driver installer's old-ish look: it covers up the screen with a faux-maximized window and prints the software's name in big bold-italic Times New Roman. It always installs quickly, though, and much more so when I upgraded my card's driver from version 185.85—to my pleasant surprise (and as Microsoft has promised Vista would allow for years), installing 186.18 didn't restart the rig, as a few others have noticed.

Well, sort of. It does restart Windows Explorer, at least, and that nukes taskbar icons of programs that don't know better. A simple logoff and logon (relogon?) fixes that in a flash, and lets me finally enjoy Vista's "no-reboot" boast.

Y. Signal.

So I've been looking at the local FCC DTV reception maps, and noticed the gain/loss maps linked on the left side (just after the nav bar and search box). For WNBC and similar stations, expect bad signals north and northwest of the city when the "transition" occurs tomorrow.

In less important news, we're all gonna die!!!

(Yes, the title is a reference to a video game.)

Tetris Friends.

I learned about Tetris Friends through Neave.com; Neave made a variant that is now one of its games. It's damn addictive.

I linked my TF profile in the "Me on the Web" section.