Fight the Amoral Fight

When I bought my laptop a few months ago I was disappointed that I couldn't get Windows XP pro installed. I had to get Vista and I'd heard nothing but bad things about it. On informed advice I got Vista Business because there was a possibility that I could put XP on it later if I hated Vista.
It took me months to transition from the desktop to the laptop. It was easier to use the slow machine than to learn the new one, know what I mean?

One of the things the desktop has is the little wunderground banner that tells me the conditions here in SP all the time. When I finally found myself spending more time on the laptop, not bothering even to turn on the desktop, I had to install the banner. But, I couldn't do it! It doesn't work with Vista - aaahhhhhh! I panicked. I mentally composed scathing emails to the wu developers. I considered loading XP on the laptop.
I took a breath.

Think about it - would our devs leave us hanging like that? No! Of course not! So, I went looking for the solution, which was easily found. I just had to install a sidebar gadget... uh... huh?
Okay, if you know what it is, you think I'm an idiot right about now. Come on, though - it's not exactly intuitive, is it?

The WU gadget is just plain awesome, with current conditions, forecast, radar(!), and webcam all at the click of the mouse.
It occurs to me that the devs may have notified us about this gadget in the blog but, since I wasn't using Vista then, I ignored it. Anyway, coolest thing ever :)

I love the sidebar gadgets and I found a site that has a gazillion of 'em. Apparently, anyone who knows how to do so can make a gadget. Nifty.

My favorite (besides wu, duh) is the radio that has a couple of dozen stations (from Europe) and allows me to add stations. I added an LA station that I can't usually pick up on the radio at the house (and I don't like the player on their website) and I'm in heaven.
I should note that, as cool as this radio gadget is, it does sometimes hang - always in the middle of a song I'm really into, natch. When it works well, though, it can't be beat.

This entire blog has three purposes:
1) To find out if others like the sidebar gadgets - what are your faves?
2) To quickly and easily replace my not-so-weathery weather blog, LOL (though it's a bummer to lose all the nice TDay greetings :))
3) To give me an excuse to post the following three videos that exemplify why I want to hear that LA radio station at home - they played them one after the other and they fit nicely together in this order, I thought; I hadn't heard the first or the third and the second is an all-time fave. Here ya go... (listen in order, now, to get the full effect, LOL)...







Have a great weekend :)