24 Feb 2003
More snow

Well, after seven inches yesterday, 5 more are on the way tonight - and it's supposed to snow tomorrow! This is now the second snowiest winter on record here, and if the predicted amounts materialize it'll be number 1.

A snowplow took out our mailbox today - that should be fun to fix tomorrow! Not! And the main barn doors are drifted shut [again]. Even though I love winter and snow in general, I'm getting really tired of this. This beats anything we seen livng in Minnesota: Indianapolis has had more snow this season than Anchorage! It can stop anytime, I'm ready for spring.

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XP Update

It's not really as bad as I expected, I must say. Once I got the UI down to the way I like it, I can hardly tell the difference. Except it hasn't crashed yet - and that's a good difference.

I found a great site that's really helped alot: TweakXP has been a godsend.

A couple of strange things. My HP Scanjet 7400 c required a new driver download (50 MB) to get it to install correctly, even though it said it installed correctly using the install CD. And Visual dBase went into multi-user mode, which effectively locked me out and forced me to reinstall. You see, running on Win98 I'd never set up an admin account or password for it, and without that you can't get into it in multiuser mode! No big deal, really, I hardly ever use it anymore, but it will be needed to maintain some legacy database code we still have in the wild.

But all in all I've been pretty pleased with it. And surprised that it does seem to add a signifigent amount of stability to the platform.

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