Damn Vista

Lately my computers hard drive, all 220GB of it has been filling up. I thought 'hmmm, must be my games' deleted all of them and voila 70GB of free space. I go to sleep happy and wake up the next morning, go on my computer and lo and behold 55 MB of free space. So I was getting really angry at my computer at this point. I deleted my downloads, 1GB, deleted my old work, deleted everything I could find. And yet my space kept on filling up for some reason. So finally I went through EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FOLDERS looking for what was doing this.... And eventually I found it. This one file was taking up over 110GB of space somehow. My first instinct was to just delete it, but that might have been a bad idea, who knew what it did. So I looked online, and do you know what it was? It was damn Vista's error reports..... Apparently it keeps every single one and stores them somewhere. Apparently nobody thought of putting a max file size so my space was just constantly getting smaller and smaller. I deleted the file and suddenly I am barely using half of the space I have. This was really frustrating as I had just deleted a to of stuff. Well hooray to windows 7.

The Red Ring of Death

If you own an Xbox you know about the infamous 'red ring of death' as it is called. It means that your Xbox is basically screwed up depending on which rings are red. Now I think that is pretty cool, it tells you what is wrong with your Xbox. If the top left ring is red, its one problem, the top left another. Now although this is something you never want to see, I think it is pretty cool that Microsoft managed to fit this into their Xbox. I mean, your computer does not tell you what is wrong, it just says an unexpected error occurred, not even a mac will tell you definitively what he exact error is. In most cases with electronics you call up and try to describe for an hour what exactly is wrong with your computer, and then the tech people come over and tell you it is something else and they have to come over again. With the red ring system all you have to tell the repair men is one easy line, the top left quadrant is flashing.

Gadgets

So there are all of these new gadgets coming out that make life easier in any way you can imagine. However a large portion of these seem to be redundant or useless. But I think people are missing the point. Sure a lot of these new gadgets might not be needed, but that is not the point. Gadgets are there to make life that little bit easier, faster or better. Whether that is your own personal Internet in your pocket or showing your friends where you are with your oyster card.