~stevenf: “Let me stress this point: The retail boxed version of Windows WOULD NOT ACCEPT the license key from the CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY that was INCLUDED IN THE BOX WITH MY PC. The recovery discs are the only way to get the OS back onto the PC without burning an unnecessary second Windows license.”

I really wonder why people still use Windows. I have a Mac that runs the Mac OS natively, the Windows OS via a hardware abstraction/virtualization hack (aka [Parallels](http://parallels.com)) and if you want to get technical, runs Unix at the core and good ol’ DOS inside of Windows. All of this without bloat, slowdowns and more. Right now, I’m running a Mac web browser (Safari) plus Windows via Parallels running Outlook 2003 for my corporate email. I get two computers, better battery life than Windows and a machine that goes to sleep and lasts for hours.

I’m not a Mac “fanboy”. I’m a “getting on with my life” fanboy. Why aren’t you?

JetPens: “The ingenious design of the Ohto Tasche allows one to carry it as a small compact pen when closed, but use it as a full sized fountain pen when open. This slim fountain pen measures 10.2 cm long when closed, 10 cm long when used by itself, and 14.7 cm when used with the cap on. Writes in nice, fine lines perfect for journals.”

Coding Horror: “If you’re wondering where 35 Gigabytes of your 500 Gigabyte drive just disappeared to, you’re not alone. It’s an old trick perpetuated by hard drive makers– they intentionally use the official SI definitions of the Giga prefix so they can inflate the the sizes of their hard drives, at least on paper. This was always an annoyance, but now it’s much more difficult to ignore, as it results in large discrepancies with today’s enormous hard drives. When is a Terabyte hard drive not a Terabyte? When it’s 931 GB.”