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You’d think there was a malediction put upon him, being stuck with this virago. He never found somone so loquacious and orotund as she, when she bruits the latest gossip of the day to all she sees. While she appears to be very aware of everyone’s life around her, it’s amazing she’s unaware that her quick switch in her mawkish expressions of care to a raging maniac causes him to frequently take umbrage in her presence.

As you may now begin to see, my weekly “Little Bit Of Nothing” posts are nothing more than an attempt to improve my lexicon, as well as yours.

I hope that these posts become a tocsin to the growing problem of our lackadaisical approach to language. In fear of sounding somewhat aberrant from our normal casual language, I encourage everyone to become a votary in pursuing a diverse vocabulary. Do this for yourself, not for the pelf it may bring you. If you do, I predict that you will soon find your conversations become filled with sempiternal effulgence.

Seems like you can now justify that purchase of that big monitor… or monitors. A recent study finds that those that have larger monitors (more screen real estate), are 10 - 45% more productive on tasks.

Read: Meet the Life Hackers - New York Times

Imagine what productivity 3 24″ LCDs could bring you…

I’ll try to keep this post as loconic as possible, but I fear that being brief does not always mean that what I write is as palpable as I like it to be.
I’ve been thinking lately about where I sit at my office, and I wish I could take a little more ownership and add a gewgaw or two to personalize my space, especially since the office is almost turning into a mini conurbation with all the diverse projects attempting to work in the same spaces. It’s difficult to stand out. Although on days I contribute a lot on my project, sometimes I feel like my job is nothing more than a sinecure.

So as predicted, Microsoft released the Beta 1 for Windows Vista (formerly code-named Windows “Longhorn”) today. It is rumored that Microsoft is holding a large meeting with stakeholders Thursday and wanted to be able to have something to talk about to show their progress. The DVD ISO is 2.49 GB and available for download on MSDN.

It took me between and hour and half to two hours to download (I was downstairs working) and installing on VPC is not fast. Unlike previous releases, install boots up into a full GUI which asks where you want to install (with an option to upgrade, if applicable). It then takes you to step 2, the crawl of the green turtle, err.. progress bar. At least Microsoft has learned not to even attempt in estimating how much time they expect it to take .

Hopefully with the RTM version they’ll have the cutsy advertising (You should buy Vista because… oh wait, you already have) during install.