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.

Should've known earlier.

• I wish I'd known about Professor Joyce's pages long ago, back when I had trig classes. That way I would've actually appreciated what the trig functions mean.
• The whole Slashdot itsatrap tagging thing is getting out of hand. No amount of hostile labeling can measure up to the Admiral's line anyway.

Dear eB_y users...

Stop putting your _x digital zoom digital cameras in the _x optical zoom categories. It pisses me off.

Sincerely,

gk

P.S. Please, eB_y, make your URLs decent. You know, readable, like those new "MyWorld" sites. Not like the search pages. Change those URLs between now and quickly.

P.P.S. The blanking is mine, not by Blogger or Google. If they did something like that, why I'd...I'd...make a ytmnd about it or something. No free lunch et cetera.

Take note of this development.

My favorite parts of Notepad++ are the “Switch Dialog” button on the Find/Replace dialog, and the ability to add custom languages. Emacs might be less constrained with the latter, but I'm not a fan of that.

They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but to me it just feels like February was yesterday.

Yikes.

24 billion results for “a”? Steve Jobs wins for dominating that letter.