I'm Dead - Part One

I woke up one morning, found out I was dead.

A short period of stress being replaced by the look normally reserved for the a first blow job or indeed any blow job if delivered with as a pleasant surprise. Slowly the cold realisation of my plight sank in and surprisingly I found comfort in knowing that the was THAT something after death that filled most ghost stories, indeed the end is not the end. So if it's not the end and it's new to me - it must be a beginning then.

A drying out of the cold sweet, a new fear raced into my veins like cold rain down the side of a rocky mountain side. Not so much what is this? but why is this?.

We have ideas implanted almost from birth, some nice, like father Christmas, but some not so nice. This was very much well over the fence which separated the foxes from the chickens or the child from the down right nasty bastards. The why I'm doing my best to avoid is the one that says if you don't do X or do you won't go to heaven. I clearly hadn't gone to heaven. Unless that is god has the same taste in wallpaper.

I wasn't subjected to much religious dumbing while I was alive but rather unfairly like everyone else I was forced to make a decision about this thing called god. I didn't one day decide I was coming down on the side that father Christmas didn't really exist and other people might strongly disagree and try to convince me of his existence for the rest of my life. Now is that day of judgement, have I been judged? have I been declined entrance? and will I be left to walk the path of the undead ? Hay if god is now a proven fact why not the undead, right ?

Vista Evaluation Copy: Build 6001

Microsoft in their wisdom have let loose on their customer a Evaluation copy of the next service pack. After installing this Service Pack 1 on the second reboot it puts a nice little message on the desktop in the bottom right hand corner. The message says "Vista Evaluation Copy: Build 6001".

This is going to concern many people that their valid lisence is now not valid. And already a lot of "do gooders" are claiming to have the answer to this "issue" from phoning to reactivate your copy of Vista to running a given script to remove the message.

The fact is this is only a evaluation service pack, the licence of which runs untill the 30th of June 2008. So you or rather Microsoft have till that date to issue the full final service pack. At that time you will uninstall this one and install the new one.

If you unistall the service pack now you will still get the message but it will drop back to 6000 build not 6001. It remains to be seen if all customers who install the final service pack will have to reactivate their copy of Vista but if you do decide to do it now you might still have to do it at that time. My advice leave it, the is plenty of time to see how this pans out.