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Upon return of my vacation I had a meeting at work and learned that we would soon start the testing and piloting of Windows Vista for the client machines. It’s a good time to start thinking about it as XP end of life is in a couple of years if I am not mistaken. We will most likely start deploying people only late 2010 or early 2011 but this is a good head start.

So me being me, I decide that if we are going to be using it at work then maybe it’s a good idea to use it day to day to learn the ins and outs. Don’t get me wrong, I have used Vista on and off since before most people were able to get it, but I never actually installed it on my main machine. I have a desktop at home that I had it on which I used for video editing and some web stuff, but my laptop is where my life is.

I grabbed a copy of it and installed it on Monday. The installation is lightning fast as you all know by now, but I just can’t get a hold on the UI. I can’t tell you what it is exactly that I don’t like but I feel like I am constantly walking through a pool. Everything is just a little harder and heavier to accomplish.

Back to XP I suppose. There is too much work to get done to fight with your UI when really you don’t get anything more from it. There is nothing extra in Vista that I need to get my work done, so the cost for benefit is awful!

I will try again, I will need to eventually. But for now, XP it is.

It’s done. I have decided to officially go with The Sleepy Geek as a persona. The website is http://www.thesleepygeek.com and that’s where I am going to host ‘le blog’. Yay! It’s an exciting moment because this is a big milestone in the quest to build The Sleepy Geek world.

Now all of you need to come and read my fun articles about my lack of sleep. Maybe you all need some Valium to slow down to my speed. We’ll have to see.

Enough fluff! How did I do it? Well I went with my domain hosting company who offers great rates for registration. I am using Dreamhost currently. I haven’t found any better out there and I don’t have any sponsors yet so it’s an unbiased plug. Currently they are hosting this site and a couple of personal sites that I have for family pictures and what not. “Yeah, yeah, yeah… HOW MUCH???”. They are offering domain registrations for $10 USD per year right now. I have heard of some companies charging $6-8, but ease of having my domains and space hosted by the same people is worth the couple of dollars.

So welcome to one and all. This is really the first post to the blog with the new domain. You are witnessing HISTORY! Okay, we’ll see ’bout that!