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Vista The Fugly
http://vistathefugly.com/wp/
The trials and tribulations of a man who once tried to promote Vista.
Recent Posts
Expression Web can’t resolve root paths
In HTML, if you want to link to an image or file on the root of your web server you would typically use a “/” in the URL to indicate the root of the server. It’s been this way for a long time, at least since 94 when I got into web ...
New iGoogle homepage = wasted space
Anyone else noticed the new iGoogle. The tabs are now on the right of the content, instead of above the content. This creates a huge amount of wasted screen real estate. What were they thinking???...
Yahoo Mail spam filters are stuck in 1997
Does anyone still have a Yahoo Mail account? I do, and just like Vista, it’s horrible. My main issue with it is about the spam filtering. I constantly get spam in my inbox. Now I would understand if the spam message looked somewhat legitimat...
I haven’t seen this before
Here’s a new one: I’m use to seeing the “Explorer.exe” process crash multiple times a day, but today was special and I got something new to crash. The odd thing was that I don’t have any external storage attached...
Expression Web - A Huge Dissapointment
Well, I decided to go out an try Microsoft’s latest and greatest web development application called “Expression Web”. First impressions…..it sucks. I couldn’t get it to open any of my local sites, got a funny error messa...
Vista’s “Windows Explorer” crashes daily…
I see this message on a daily occurrenc, (usually 2-3 times a day): The fact that it is crashing doesn’t bother me as much as the useless “Check online for a solution and restart the program” button. Has anyone ever seen this butt...

