i was planning today on going to the library and then the supermarket. work somehow got in the way of that. the moment i woke up i was working. i ended up having to install windows 7 on my desktop PC. i went with a dual boot option (my other system being XP), first archiving some files on my 80gb boot drive, shrinking it so there'd be 20gb free, creating a partition, and then installing windows 7. even after that, there was still a slew of drivers and updates that needed to be installed before windows 7 was running nice and smooth.

i have a secret: i actually like windows 7. i've played around with vista as well, but not enough to notice any bugs. compared to XP though, vista seemed bloated. but in its most current iteration, windows 7 is a much improved vista. and it's the most mac OS X like windows OS to date, so for a life-long apple user like me, the windows 7 user interface feels just as intuitive.

i'm overdue for a new pc. my current dell dimension 1100 is over 5 years old. i bought it new for $300 and it came with a monitor. i use it primarily for testing purposes. my desktop mac is even older, over a decade, a 400mhz G4 that i suped up to 1.8ghz but feels just as slow. when and if i do get a new pc, it'd replace both my desktop machines in the form of a hackintosh.

i stopped working by 4:00. smelly a bit raw, i took a quick shower. my roommate came home around 5:30, but left shortly afterwards to meet a shanghai friend in harvard square.