Save the Sonics

This issue might not mean anything to people outside the Greater Puget Sound area or Western Washington but there's no harm in throwing this plea out to the general public.

Last year, the Seattle Supersonics and WNBA team Storm were sold to out of state investors led by Clay Bennett of Oklahoma City. This is one of the worst decisions of Starbucks owner and previous Sonics owner Howard Schultz.

The Sonics are asking the state for a new $500 million arena to replace the KeyArena as the Sonics and Storm's home. Legislature in Olympia are against this and saying the money might be better used for education, healthcare, etc.

Having an NBA franchise in the state is imperative to keeping the identity of the Northwest alive, keeping Seattle in the map. Giving away the only sports franchise in town to win a national championship is stupid. Let's just hope the politicians in Olympia understand this.

http://www.saveoursonics.org/

The Police are BACK!!!

The Police has just announced their world tour today and released dates for the North American leg.

They will be at the KEY on the 6th of June! That's right, Seattle will be the second stop on the tour after Vancouver BC.

Can't wait to grab the tickets to this show. I just hope it won't be sold out.

The Perils of Vista

I finally got my hands on the new operating system and let me just say this - I'm not sure that it is a good idea to upgrade.

Although installation was a breeze, software incompatibilities were a lot! I don't have antivirus software installed (Zonealarm hasn't released a Vista compatible version yet), I almost lost my Microsoft Money file, my Outlook files can't be imported (although I figured out a workaround and worst of all - I LOST MY F*CKIN ITUNES PLAYLIST!!!! That's right! For one reason or another, my Itunes library was corrupted or damaged and can't be imported to the new OS. All my ratings, playlists, and all other metadata were erased from the library and I have to rebuild everything from the ground up.

I won't say I didn't expect this, but actually it went better than I thought it would. The graphics are much nicer, although my laptop didn't fare very well with a Vista experience rating of 1.0(!) which meant that it could only run the Vista Basic software. My primary computer though was average (3.3) - with dual NVIDIA Geforce 6600 on SLI, 2GB DDR RAM, two 300GB SATA HDD, AMD 64 X2 4200+ (overclocked).

Upgrade-wise, I think I will do the video card in the near future, when DirectX 10 cards won't cost more than $400!