Oil Changes and Vista

So I'm sitting here at the car dealership getting my wife's oil changed in her car (I get the glory of repeating this process again tomorrow for my car...joy.) It is nice though, since the Mazda dealership offers free Wifi so I can bring my laptop and mess around on the net while waiting for my car to get done.

I also get to roam around the dealership lot and check out all the new cars and see what's out on the market that's cool. The thing I found that interests me the most is the new 09 Mazda CX-7. If you don't know what it is, it's Mazda's first step into the crossover market (and from what I remember, I believe it was one of the very first, if not the first crossover SUV to be offered on the market.) It's a pretty cool car. The 09 is nice because they retooled the engine to take regular unleaded fuel, as opposed to the 07 and 08's which had to user super unleaded fuel.

Anyway, onto more interesting things, games (of course.) I took the plunge over Christmas and reformatted my desktop to Vista. Mind you, I still have my XP partition, just in case, but mainly I'm going to give Vista a real try from a gaming perspective, and see how it does.

I'm now about a week into it, and have everything pretty much set-up the way I like and it seems to be running fine. I've been playing Command and Conquer 3 on it and have had zero problems running it. When I get back home this afternoon I plan on getting Dawn of War: Soulstorm installed and see how that runs on it. I'm guessing there won't really be any problems. The only game that I know is having problems currently is Diablo II, since it's so old. I'm hoping Star Craft won't have any problems with Vista, but I'm really not holding out any hope there.

I also read on Life Hacker that the beta for Windows 7 is out in the wild (even though it's not supposed to be released until sometime in early 09.) I really can't wait to get my hands on copy because everything I've heard has been good about Windows 7. People are saying it's the most stable beta M$ has ever put out, so I'm kind of curious to see what they are talking about. I'll let you know as soon as I get my hands on a copy.

Oh yeah, I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but if you haven't seen you should check out Rocket Dock:



The cool part is that the software is free, you download it from here: Rocket Dock. On my Vista machine, I have Rocket dock as opposed to any icons on my desktop. It's pretty nice, it also helps keep your desktop clean and tidy (something I'm a big fan of.)

Anyway, I think Amy's care is almost done. More later on.

~C