Stolen shamelessly from the internets:

[From Consumerist]

Don't copy that floppy!  Or that CD, or that flash drive, or that DVD, or that...

(From YouTube)

Got DirecTV?  Watch Starz free tomorrow through Sunday!

Don't got DirecTV?  Shoot me an e-mail and I can save you $100!  (Not only will you save me $100 in the process, but you can also save another $100 if you sign friends up to DirecTV...)

Keep your computer clean.  Pay attention to what you're doing.  Follow these simple steps (from Simple Thoughts):

1. DON'T download the fake greeting card
2. DON'T download the fake video codec.
3. DON'T download the fake MySpace/Facebook/Friendster update.
4. DON'T download the fake driver update.
   
5. DON'T download the fake files from your IM client.

Check the referenced article for more information.  K?

Simple enough?  Need more?  Okay, how about be very, very cautious when you do searches for:

• word unscrambler
• lyrics
• myspace
• free music downloads
• phelps
• game cheats
• printable fill-in puzzles
• free ringtones
• solitaire

And if you're looking at any of this...

• screen savers
• free games
• work from home
• Olympics
• videos
• celebrities
• music
• news

...then be expecting some nastyware to jump on your computer like dogs on Snausages.

Further reading:  CNN, Consumerist

All-in-all, my favorite feature has got to be the parental lock.

[Video From YouTube, a guest post on the Stuff Christians Like blog]

[From CartoonChurch.com]

You may have noticed (or not) that I'm Twitterpated now.

"You keep saying that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means."

Yeah, I know, Inigo.  I was just making a pun out of it.  Anyhow, I'm all up on the Twitter now, so if you're really into that kind of thing, you can track my every move like a prisoner on house arrest.  Then again, I'm really not into that kind of thing just yet.  I'm just using it to update my Facebook status and copy the same info to this here blog...which, if you're Stephen'z Blog, you can check out my Twitter status in the upper right corner.  If you're reading this on Facebook, you can just check my status there. 

My twitter feed is http://twitter.com/thebigwhitewolf/.

Okay, so I'm getting old.  Remember when we would spend our days playing Nintendo?  I don't mean anything other than the original Nintendo Entertainment System.  You know the one where the controller had the ergonomic comfort of a brick? 

Many of you also suffered with me the experience of Nintendo thumb. 

Now, we have BlackBerry thumb.  (This has nothing to do with purple-stained hands or briar pricks.)  If you don't suffer from this, don't worry.   It's not like you're sending 14,528 text messages a month or anything...

My wife claims that I'm a good writer.  Do you know how difficult it was for me to properly parse the subject of this post?  I so badly wanted to say "Another blog you should subscribe to" because that's what I'd say when I'm just talking.  That would've gotten me points knocked off in my Public Speaking class as well as English.  Fortunately, this is the Internet.  No one grades grammar on the Internet.  Mock me if you may, I'll just delete your comment.  (If it doesn't get marked as spam first...which it tends to do that sometimes even if you are leaving a valid comment, not something about online pharmacies or cheap flights on travel sites.)

Anyway, go and see my wife's blog.  You should subscribe yourselves unto it...uh...I mean...thou shalt subscribe thineselves unto it?  Or something.

http://thinksthunksandthoughts.blogspot.com/ 

And tell her I said "Duh-huh!"  She'll know what you mean...Actually, she probably won't.  I don't recall my wife ever being a John Boy and Billy fan...

There's no doubt that Windows Vista has been one of the most controversial operating systems that has come out of Redmond. Gggggggg Steve, when you say it like that, it makes it sound like there's some kind of baby seal massacre or child labor violations or something... No, I mean there's lots of people out there who say it stinks.  Personally, I think Vista may be too advanced.  There is no middle ground between what Windows XP will run on and what Windows Vista will run on.  I mean, a 1 gigahertz processor with 512 megabytes of RAM will make a nice surfing/browsing PC with Windows XP.  People think they can go and get the latest and greatest software without having the latest and greatest hardware, and then they expect it to work peachy.  When time came to replace my work computer, I decided to go for the Vista, but I went with as much RAM and clock frequency that I could fit in my budget.  Vista is awesome!  Kwitcherwhyneen!

Anyways, I recently found out an interesting nugget about upgrading between versions of Windows Vista.  You can't upgrade every version of Windows Vista Home to every version of Windows Vista Business...it just won't happen that way.  I did learn that you can upgrade Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate.  So, off we went to the computer store to get the DVD.  When I tried upgrading, it told me that upgrading was disabled.  Upon further investigation, I found out that if you have installed a service pack on top of Windows Vista, you can't upgrade it with a version of Windows Vista that doesn't already have the service pack applied.  (The one we had just purchased did not.)

It's sort of like saying, "Well, we could trade this Lincoln MKS for this Lincoln Navigator, but unfortunately, you put rimz on there, and now the two are not in the least compatible.   You're going to have to sell the MKS on your own, and purchase your Lincoln Navigator on your own."

Note to self:  If I ever own a Lincoln, don't put rimz on it. 

Well...thus far, it has been one out of the three.

I have tried about three times to complete it over a network connection.  That failed.  I'm on my third try with an external hard drive.  It claimed that I was out of disk space...what?  The available space on the external drive I was trying to use is about three times the size of my old hard drive.  How could I run out of space?!?

Yeah...I've got a lot to blog later, but that's coming later.