Opa!

Microsoft may have actually done something right the first time. Early reviews of their SP2 update for Windows XP have been unusually positive, especially for a Microsoft product. The day may finally be at hand when friends and relatives no longer need me to remove gobs of malware from their computers. I haven’t downloaded it myself yet, mostly because I’m lazy and I figure I’ll wait for the automatic updater to notify me. But they still can’t convince me to switch back to Internet Explorer.
The Olympics begin tomorrow and the media is desperately trying to get me to care. For some reason, I’m not all that enthusiastic this time around. I had a higher level of interest back in 2000 because I thought Sydney was such a lovely city (and I still want to get there someday). And while I’m sure Athens has its charms, I haven’t been impressed with their overall level of preparation and my gut feeling is that it’s going to be even more poorly organized than the 1996 Games in Atlanta. But as long as nobody dies during the next week and a half, I suppose you can call that a success.