I found a great website today. Actually, I found out about the website through a long session of "Firefox Pimping," the other day. Link below:

Package Mapping

Now, user-based package tracking isn't new, but this site integrates your packages' locations with Google maps, and draws lines, so you can see exactly where your crap is. I ordered some headphones from Woot (another great site,) and I checked the exact status. My headphones left Syracuse at 11:16 this morning. It even adds a graphic of a package with wings floating above the location. So i guess is the next best thing before the packages themselves come with GPS locators right on them. That would be pretty pricy.

But there's a Firefox extension for this website. If I highlight a tracking number, I get an option in the right-click menu to "track package with package mapper," and it takes you right to the site with the courier picked and everything ready. It's a great idea, and I am sure tons of people use this on a daily basis, home business owners, or people who just buy a lot of shit.

I also had the (un)pleaseure of working with Windows Vista finally. My roomate bought a new desktop computer 2 days ago. You can get any kind of computer cheap right now (except Mac's, but don't get me started there, sorry macophiles.) The one downside to this is, they're all running Vista. It's what, 3 months old? Windows XP has been really stable for a few years now, so why change it? Oh right, heavy competition from Mac. Anyhow, first-gen software of this caliber rarely works right because it's so damn complicated (for Microsoft.) And it's just too... cluttery. I'm sure there are many ways for great personalization, but I'm missing the point. I'm missing the point because the computer is choking to run this crap, with all the features, effects and visualizations going on. And this isn't a brand new e-machine or people PC, it's a Compaq with a 3.33 GHz Celeron and 1Gb of ram. Whatever.

Since we all had laptops, our wireless router was good-to-go. Desktops don't come wireless ready unless you add the overpriced internal card, and running an ethernet cable under carpeting in an apartment isn't a good idea. So you go and get a brand new USB wireless adapter. No Vista compatability. And god-forbid you enable your brand new software to have older types of recognition for drivers. It fucked up reading the CD to install anything. (At this point I overtook the mouse in trying to get the internet going. Our apartment is basked 24 hours in a luxurious full bar WiFi signal.) You had to go into the control panel to show a menu of all devices. It shows the fucking adapter right there. After some computer semantic circle-jerking, we were able to manually install the XP drivers and it worked fine. I fucking hate computers.

And people who get huge virus problems on their non-Mac computer, I am thouroughly convinced, either A. have no idea what they are doing, or B. are running the wrong programs for it. McAfee = No fucking way, ever. Norton = No. To get the software that works you have to pay them excessive amounts of money. (And the rumors that these 2 companies make their own viruses for their software.) Plus when my parents had McAfee the updater NEVER WORKED. I use AntiVir. It's FREE. And not a single thing slips by it, ever. There was a partially corrupted file coming in from my downloads of the school hub, and my computer made such a fucking loud beep I nearly shat myself. And it updates in a matter of seconds every day, whatever time I want it too.

And my computer? A sub-$800 Dell Inspiron E1505. Oh, the crap I got when I said I was getting a Dell. Well if you take care of it, and are computer literate you will be fine. I guess there is always the chance you get a bad egg. But that happens a lot with Mac's too... so there you have it. And someone almost shot me when I told them I have a Zune.

Unparalleled video quality and screen size. Plus the brown one has the green haze effect on the outside... it's just great.

(Apologies for the small font, but I write a lot, and I'm trying to make it look less intimidating.)