Joke

What's the difference between bird flu and swine flu?  You get tweetment for bird flu and oinkment for swine flu.

I Quit

OK, this is going to be a long and involved post.

Pursuant to a discussion the other day, I was doing some serious listening to some Larry Norman music.  I've decided why I don't listen to him much.  He has a way with words, he's a good composer, but his voice grates on me.  Especially when he can't remember the words and throws a screechy "eeeyaaaw!" in.

Anyway, he does have a way with words.

IT'S ONLY TODAY THAT COUNTS

It ain't no good to lay in bed at night
And think about the past
About how you could have done things differently
But it happened way too fast.

Just close your eyes, go to sleep
Let the angels bring you dreams.
Let that pain unwind behind you
And float away, float away on silent streams.

You gotta live your life the best you can
Though you sometimes do your worst.
You gotta laugh when you fail, it's not the end of the world
Life is a play you can't rehearse.

Don't make big plans for tomorrow,
You can't control what lies ahead.
You must try to live each moment
As it comes instead.

There is no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past.
It's only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last.
It's only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last.

It never helps to worry, it never hurts to pray,
Tomorrow will come soon enough; just pray about today.
And relax, trust your life to God,
The future is in his hand,
Only faith will help you face each day's demands.

Ain't no use worrying, life goes so fast.
It's only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last.
It's only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last.

OK.

Vista Annoyance

In general I have liked Windows Vista.  It gave me new tools and options ("toys") to play with.  However, there is one major annoyance, and that is the fact that Vista "assumes" it knows how I want to look at my files and folders in Explorer.

Now, I'm sure that there are a lot of people that like this.  I'm certain that there are people out there that like the idea that Vista recognizes that a folder is full of photos and display all the photo info for them.  I'm confidant that there are people out there that are happy to let Vista recognize the Music folder and display all the album and artist info.

However, I like to see the file info.  I have always (in the past) set my computer to display full file details (roughly equivalent to the command "dir /o/p/a") in Explorer.  I know how to go into the properties of the folder and select the customize tab and tell Vista to use the "All Items" template, and how to set the view to "Details".

However, the problem I am currently having is that the templates are wrong somehow.  To actually use the "All Items" template I have to select the "Documents" template.  And the templates are not being inherited by the subfolders even though the box is checked.  And even more annoying is that once the view is customized the customization doesn't stay; it reverts to something different after some unknown but short period of time.

When I first started using Vista I found a utility that allowed me to set the customization globally, and after it was set Vista no longer changed things.  However, that was a while back and several computers ago, and I no longer recall the name of the utility or where I found it.  I have looked briefly, but haven't come across it, and as I recall I found it by accident before.

Does anyone know where I can find this handy tool?

Philosophy

I'm re-reading the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, haven't read them in many years.  I'm going to try to paraphrase Tarzan's philosophy of life; he calls it the fatalism of the jungle:  One is either dead or alive, and until we are dead we should plan only upon continuing to live.   Take things as they come.

Jungle Book

Heh heh, saw Disney's Jungle Book the other day, the buzzard's singing about "Friends" was quite touching.