Well, perhaps not the wayyou think of them…
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This story about the first room temperature plastic magnets is really cool. Can’t wait for the technology to stabilize and become widely available, then a year or two later it will be affordable enough for yours truly to have a taste of it…
This morning I played taxi for one of our endusers attending a training seminar here at our office. He is staying with L’s family at <plug class=”shameless”>the Roosevelt Inn Bed and Breakfast here in downtown Coeur d’Alene</plug>
I have been getting exercise lately, really. I mean it. I just don’t always write about it. Especially when I lose 
Yesterday I did some weight training with MP, then we went and played racquetball—I won, but the previous time we played I lost 2 games. After the weight training (we went at it pretty darn hard), I felt a little sick, but it passed after I caught my breath. I haven’t worked that hard (physically) in several weeks.
Well, looks like Microsoft just cut their “next-generation” file system from Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system.
Strike 1 was Windows XP Service Pack 2, which cripples about 10% of (Windows-based, obviously) computers the instant you install it. I fixed a laptop yesterday for one of our users in training at our office this week because he installed SP2 and could no longer get to his desktop. Fortunately, he had system restore on, and I could log in under Administrator in Safe Mode to roll back the update.
If you want next generation filesystems, just use Linux. For instance:
Windows Supported Filesystems (XP Pro): FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, but NTFS is your only real choice for Windows, everything else is old.
Linux Supported Filesystems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (read-only)—you can read all your Windows files in Linux—ext2, and then the journaled file sytems: ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, as well as a whole freaking slew of miscellaneous filesystems. And best of all, you don’t have to wait for them.