It's Been a While

So it's been a while since I've posted anything and I just thought I would post what I've been doing.  We have a new puppy (A Mini Aussie Shepherd) and he is adorable but really crazy.  He loves to run and has almost to much energy.  To help kill the energy, I've been doing it like Cesar Milan and taking him rollerblading.  This helps get his energy out and it is better than me running because I can't really run very far without feeling faint.

I've also just been fiddling around with my computers.  I took my Windows Vista HP laptop and partitioned off the hard drive and installed the Windows 7 Beta on the partition.  It was pretty interesting and worked really well.  I'm really liking Windows 7 and Microsoft could have something.  I have heard they are going to have over 6 versions of Windows 7 (like basic, home premium, business, ect).  While I understand that they are known for this, why can't they take a page from Apples book and just over 3 versions, a Basic, a Home and a Business version.  Keep it simple and they might actually sell more copies of the operating system.  All of that aside, this version of Windows runs very well.  It is snappy, hasn't crashed on me yet and the boot up and shut down speeds are much faster.  Overall, Windows 7 was an easy install, it loaded all of my drivers and was ready to use in under 45 min.  This version seems to manage the available memory better too.  

With all that said, I'm not sure that I'll be running out to by a Windows 7 machine anytime soon, I love my Mac to much.

Speaking of my Mac, The wife and I share a MacBook with an 80 gig hard drive.  Needless to say, this causes frustration on my part because I was having to keep all of my movies, TV shows and photos on an external hard drive.  After downloading the first season of Burn Notice, I only had 1 gig of space left on a 120 gig external drive.  I decided to start a project and upgrade my internal MacBook drive.  It was easier than I expected it to be.  I purchased a 500 gig from BestBuy and took the old drive out, screwed the new drive in, inserted the OS X install disk, formated the new 500 Gig drive using the install disk and installed Leopard.  Within an hour I was up and running, Loaded all of my content on the internal drive and now I'm set!!  I was very surprised at how easy this was, I have now purchased more RAM for the MacBook to help extend its life a bit longer.

Well thats what I've been up to, borrowing I know, but if you like playing with computers it was a blast.