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As you can see, I’m surviving. I’ve got a cup of tea, somem M&Ms, and the latest episode of The Honorable Ninja Farm. I’m good for… the next five minutes.

Over at Cheap Eats, they’re chowing down on linguini with clam sauce, quesadillas, homemade gatorade, homefries, and chicken adobo, and all for under three bucks a meal.

So, if you’re rather budget-minded, and tired of eating ramen noodles all the time, and especially if that photo of the quesadillas above looks mighty tasty, then go pick up some thrifty ideas to make your belly happy.

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So, after five years from the release of their last operating system, Microsoft released Vista, codename “longhorn”. I think longhorn is appropriately bovine, given the amount of useless crap MS likes to cram in. Oh wait.. those are supposed to be features. My mistake.

In all fairness, I’m typing this on a laptop running Vista. I’m not saying that the new OS is any more sluggish than XP, but it certainly has more bugs than I’d expect for something that took five years to put out to the public, more obnoxious security hassles to work around, and really nothing that I didn’t have with XP. In-fact, I’ve lost the ability to play Sims 2, I now have to manually adjust my fan speed at startup because the Nvidia vista driver doesn’t support fan speed adjustments on BGP video cards, and I can no longer connect through a VPN that relies on CHAP v1 encryption.

At this point, it’s worth wondering why I am bothering to use Vista at all when there are better alternatives out there, such as Ubuntu or Kubuntu linux. I’m a web/graphic designer. Thus, I’m married to Adobe CS3. I could theoretically virtualize and run XP in VMWare in linux, but the goal is to not use windows, so VMWare solves nothing in reality.

Yes, I could give in, buy a mac, and at least be using a unix core, but there is the problem that apple’s laptops are rather expensive and not nearly as durable as my latitude d400.

So for me, I’ll tool around with the latitude until either it dies a natural death or becomes so obsolete that it is no longer productive. Then I will consider a shiny new Macbook.