This week I got "Pirates of Silicon Valley" from Netflix and watched through the Wii. My kids took one look and quickly cleared the room. My husband graciously went to bed early. Who knew it was so easy to clear a room. Personally, anything with Noah Wylie in it can't be that bad, and even if it is....Noah Wylie's in it so I'll keep watching. Anyway....I had seen parts of the movie several times on TV, but this was the first time I watched all the way through. It was interesting to see the ups and downs of their creative escapades and how it fluctuated back and forth between the two pairs of inventors. Apple's ahead, now wait....Microsoft is ahead. They pretty much sacrificed everything, including relationships in order to create these dream machines. Of course most people would say that they've been more than compensated for their sacrifices. The one thing I found annoying, and I usually do, was that they kept switching from modern day (1999) to flashbacks the characters were having about the process, trials and tribulations. Overall, I thought it was a good movie and they picked good actors to play the parts of each of the characters.
Also, this week I decided to trade computers with my daughter. At home I had to use Vista and she got to use my Windows 7. It was a very long week for me. I found myself just waiting until I got to work to do things on the computer, whenever possible. I hated Vista. It kept freezing up, seemed really slow and nothing was where I expected to find it. I am really glad that I jumped right from XP to Windows 7 and didn't end up with Vista on any of my computers!
Another experiment was to play around with the additional features on Windows 7. I found some useful child safety features that allowed me to control my children's Internet usage. It's safe to say that they were not the least bit impressed. I also set up for backups on my computer. I tried optimizing set-up on my laptop, but I didn't notice any difference really.
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