Merqueen & the evil that is Vista
This is the Merqueen. She popped into my daydream yesterday and demanded to be drawn, so I put her on an ATC. She’s very used to getting her own way.
I hated to do it, but I had to buy a new PC. Normally, I love getting new gadgets, but this time I knew it would mean having to get Microsoft Vista (shudder). I already had Vista on my laptop and knew I did NOT want it on my desktop pc, but alas there wasn’t much choice. One day, I’ll strike it rich and buy a Mac. 
Anyway, one thing among the various things that Vista refuses to cooperate with is my scanner. It will now only scan and save in bmp format. No more pngs jpgs tiffs or anything else. Although it isn’t very old, HP says they have no intention of providing a Vista driver for it. We should all just go out and buy NEW scanners that already have a Vista driver. Makes me wish I hadn’t bought an HP computer! Vista also doesn’t like many of my favorite programs and apps. Some of them will run acceptably in XP mode, some not. And they moved everything. And the new networking system they are using is awful. I think I will be spending a lot more time on my old Linux computer. It is time to treat it to some upgrades so I’ll have at least one computer around here that doesnt make me want to throw things.
