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Pizza Night

Tonight is pizza night in out house, and in order avoid getting cheese and pepperoni all over my keyboard, there will be no blogging tonight. But before I go- The whole Kinsella thing is just too weird. I will say that if need be, I think we bloggers ought to consider helping in whatever way we can. These guys need to be taken down a notch or three. I can think of good things that might come of it, if it is played well. I can think of people who might like to help. We shall see. My computer does not appear to have a virus after all. It's just Microsoft being, well, Microsoft. First one of the Windows updates disables Window's search function. I fixed that with a reigstry hack. But I still can't edit, move, or delete icons or image files using Windows itself. Something is weirded out in the explorer shell. None of the patches or anything else I've done has fixed it. I'm open to suggestions.

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