THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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My somewhat older laptop had trouble with Vista itself, never mind the gadgets. At a creaky 18 months old, it didn't have the power to run anything but basic Vista, and it did that in fits and starts and very slowly. Worst of all, when I tried to roll the machine back to XP, I discovered that, once you do a full upgrade, Vista cannot be uninstalled. All you can do is reformat the hard drive, lose all your data and programs and reinstall XP all over again. Seeking confirmation of this from the Microsoft Website, I discovered the company was at that point charging $245 per incident for a support call.
In fairness to the Bug, I've been playing with His Office 2007 for a few days, and I must confess I think He has a winner there. The ribbons are far easier to work with than the old menu system. (Of course it helps that I paid $0 for it, but I still think it's an improvement.)