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alfvaenIt never fails to bug me when I receive "Microsoft Windows Critical Updates" notifications. (I guess I don't have the automatic updating set up--I've only got 98 SE on this machine.)
It's not that they bug me intrinsically--it's the timing of them. I'm not sure why, but they seem to come up about an hour after I boot up the machine.
What are you usually doing an hour after you boot your computer up? Are you sitting there doing nothing, just ripe for a download, ugprade and reboot? Not me. Tonight I managed it because Nicole had just brought the boys downstairs for my shift, and I was stopping what I was doing anyway(hacking MemeLife on Eclipse--I had just gotten my first batch of jUnit tests to run green), but often it's inconvenient. Especially when I'm running something in DirectX, where often what happens is that suddenly part of the screen(where the Critical Updates popup is)suddenly freezes, and I have to switch back to Windows to get rid of it.
Are these intentionally annoying, to try to get you to switch to a silent auto-update mode? Because it's not working.
While I'm at it, let me vent about something else. On the library booksale table last weekend, I picked up a CD(for $1)called "Bacon Bits" and subtitled "thirteen sizzlin' canadian artists". I hadn't heard of any of the artists before, so I figured it was some indie compilation, and thought I'd try it out, for a buck.
At home, when I was looking at the CD booklet, I noticed that they had a little "genre" indication by each band, and many of them included the red-flag word "worship". Apparently I had been sucked into buying(for a reduced price, at least)a CD of Christian music.
Now it's not fair to say that I never like Christian music. But often I find it annoying, preachy(go figure), and intrusive. The only exception I can think of right now is Burlap To Cashmere's "Digee Dime", which doesn't sound Christian to me at all, being sufficiently lyrically indirect, and overwhelmingly catchy, that I like it in spite. I'm only taking other people's word that it's Christian music at all. (I remember hearing that Evanescence, on hearing about themselves being filed as Christian music on the basis of their lyrics, actually complained about it. I don't blame them--that's like being ghettoized, practically.)
Anyway, I'm going to give this CD one chance, and if I don't like it I'll pop it back in the library slot, maybe with a big "WARNING: Christian Music" sticker.*
It's not that they bug me intrinsically--it's the timing of them. I'm not sure why, but they seem to come up about an hour after I boot up the machine.
What are you usually doing an hour after you boot your computer up? Are you sitting there doing nothing, just ripe for a download, ugprade and reboot? Not me. Tonight I managed it because Nicole had just brought the boys downstairs for my shift, and I was stopping what I was doing anyway(hacking MemeLife on Eclipse--I had just gotten my first batch of jUnit tests to run green), but often it's inconvenient. Especially when I'm running something in DirectX, where often what happens is that suddenly part of the screen(where the Critical Updates popup is)suddenly freezes, and I have to switch back to Windows to get rid of it.
Are these intentionally annoying, to try to get you to switch to a silent auto-update mode? Because it's not working.
While I'm at it, let me vent about something else. On the library booksale table last weekend, I picked up a CD(for $1)called "Bacon Bits" and subtitled "thirteen sizzlin' canadian artists". I hadn't heard of any of the artists before, so I figured it was some indie compilation, and thought I'd try it out, for a buck.
At home, when I was looking at the CD booklet, I noticed that they had a little "genre" indication by each band, and many of them included the red-flag word "worship". Apparently I had been sucked into buying(for a reduced price, at least)a CD of Christian music.
Now it's not fair to say that I never like Christian music. But often I find it annoying, preachy(go figure), and intrusive. The only exception I can think of right now is Burlap To Cashmere's "Digee Dime", which doesn't sound Christian to me at all, being sufficiently lyrically indirect, and overwhelmingly catchy, that I like it in spite. I'm only taking other people's word that it's Christian music at all. (I remember hearing that Evanescence, on hearing about themselves being filed as Christian music on the basis of their lyrics, actually complained about it. I don't blame them--that's like being ghettoized, practically.)
Anyway, I'm going to give this CD one chance, and if I don't like it I'll pop it back in the library slot, maybe with a big "WARNING: Christian Music" sticker.*
