A roof driving down the road?

You never expect to look out your front window because you hear weird noises and see a dump truck driving down the street with the roof of a small house strapped to the top of it. The weird noises turned out to be this roof smacking into speed limit signs and other things and knocking them over. Actually they were being broken off right at the ground and snapped off.

The picture I’ve included is worth 10,000 words. I actually saw them get stopped by the police about 3 blocks down from where I live. It was a riot.

You can’t fix stupid.

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Little things that make you thankful.

often we all get in our own little selfish worlds and we forget how good we have it.  I make this mistake as much as everyone else.

This morning on the way to work I came upon a traffic jam and soon realized that it was due to an accident.  A Metro Life Flight helicopter landed on the highway and took someone to a hospital.  I prayed for the people involved in the accident and then immediately became thankful for my own life.

This particular incident made me realize how awesome we humans can be when we are at our best.  A freaking helicopter landed in the middle of the highway because they needed to save a persons life.  That kicks ass.  The pilots, the medical crew on board, the police, EMT’s and fireman helping out all were doing an awesome job.  As I looked at people in the cars around me and it appeared that nobody was upset or mad that we were at a dead stop on the highway. We were going to be late.  Usually people are beeping and throwing their hands up in the air etc.  I’m sure that these people realized that it could have been them and that getting to work “on time” today wasn’t important.  It could wait.

I hope the person(s) that were hurt in this accident are alright and that they live.

I was late to work today and I was thankful that I was late.

As I walked during my lunchtime the other day at work I got a chance to stop and look at some Canadian geese that were bathing in a pond.  They were jumping into the pond and flapping around and then getting out and flapping their wings and then pruning themselves.  It was beautiful.  I was probably about 30 feet from them.  I was thankful to have seen them.

I am thankful today.

The Demise of Microsoft

I came across this blog entry reading stuff on the web one day. It’s an interesting article from someone who proclaims to work for Microsoft. I don’t doubt that they do I am just saying that I don’t know for a fact that they do.

The stuff that this guy mentions are all true.

Take a look at this blog to see what I mean

I think Microsoft is slowly going down the toilet. I mean no other time in history have companies like Dell and Gateway offered to still install the previous OS (Windows XP) when a newer OS (Windows Vista) is out. Dell had previously disallowed people to purchase new systems with Windows XP. They ended up making it an option again after so many people complained. I guess Microsoft can now subtract all of the so called “passive” installs of Vista that would be running because it came pre-installed on a new computer. Vista is a huge flop and Microsoft is going to pay for it in a big way. They made their bed……they can lie in it.

With that said, the workstation sitting directly to the right of me, is running Ubuntu Linux. It’s a spare workstation I use for surfing the web, checking email, instant messaging, etc. It works very well and I have had no problems at all with it. In fact it’s been up now for 35 days.

If I left even my Windows XP box up for 35 days I would have had to reboot it simply for updates needed. Heck even poorly written applications with memory leaks would have made me reboot the computer at least every couple days. I leave my main computer at home on 24/7/365, but since it’s XP Pro it needs rebooted every couple days.

Test from Windows Live Writer (Beta)

This is a test post from Microsoft’s new Windows Live Writer (Beta). It’s able to write to many different blog services. I’ve never used one of these applications before and I think it’s neat to not have to log in to your blog all the time to write to it.

Get Windows Live Writer (Beta) here

Currently it supports Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many others.