Here's a scary thought

Facebook now gets more traffic than eBay and is coming up in Google's rearview mirror like a bat out of hell. Yes, I do use the site and it is pretty cool. Especially when I find someone I went to high school with and actually get to find out whatever happened to them. Facebook apparently has no desire to go all evil empire on us and is putting out feelers to Google, Flixster, and other former flavour of the month websites to develop content modules that would work within Facebook, thereby making it even more deliciously addictive.

Speaking of evil empires, I was just reading CNet's review of Windows Vista and I don't think I want to upgrade. Typically, Microsoft has given its existing system a slicker skin, changed the theme colours from blue and silver to basic black, and made the whole package even more dependent on web content delivered through IE7. As a long-time Firefox user, I'm not crazy about Microsoft's continued attempts to make you use their crappy browser engine. Go Gecko! The little engine that wouldn't die. Or am I mixing up my metaphors there? Anyway... the difference between Vista and XP SP2 is about the same (or so it seems to me) as that between Office 2000 (XP) and Office 2003. Same ol' Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, slicker interface. How about changing something under the hood, fellas? You gotta catch up to OS X one of these odd days...