Let's explore!

• How enthusiastic Microsoft employees are after the layoffs.

• Rocknerd: Microsoft employees give up all hope.

• NotN: click the last seven or so items in the feed. Photo: the same. I know, I should LJ more often.

All the *pint*s in the world to ewtikins for organising money to move the younger teenager's piano here! WE LOVE YOU ALL.

Quotidian domesticity continues. The younger teenager is enjoying the new school and new friends. The older teenager should be put somewhere in reasonable order.

Windows 7 works well enough on this laptop in a 512MB VirtualBox if I take care not to be running anything else whatsoever. I'm not running an antivirus. Uses power like nobody's business, though. Very pretty. Can't get it to see the Samba share on the host machine, which is a little annoying.

arkady gets a medal for valour for taking Freda to the dentist. Freda's chipped a tooth and it will require work. (Removing milk teeth before their time is inadvisable as then there may not be room for the adult teeth.)

redcountess has started seeing a physio for her fibro, who's worked out an exercise programme for her.

Off to the Pembury this evening with nyecamden. You?

Update: Beat networking into halfway behaving and got my first Windows 7 blue screen! In win32k.sys, when watching a DivX AVI over the network in VLC. Sound doesn't work either.