Windows Update lag – HELP!!!

Ever since my last Windows Update, my desktop lags like crazy whenever I’m downloading from the Internet. Regular network traffic is unaffected, however anything coming from the ‘net – whether it be via Internet Explorer, Google Earth, Bittorrent or whatever – slows my machine down to a point where I can barely even switch between windows…cursor barely moves at all. And it doesn’t matter if files are coming in at 15 k/s or 500 k/s…but until the download completes, I’m stuck twiddling my thumbs.

Has anybody else had this problem or otherwise know how to fix it??? (I believe this would’ve been in the June updates, but I don’t recall which one specifically.) Why can’t I roll back updates like I can drivers, etc…? Maybe I’d have been better off continuing to ignore that little bubble in the corner… :<

Google Earth is my new favorite toy…

http://earth.google.com

If you’ve got broadband and you’re NOT playing with this right now, I just don’t know what to say to you! They took a great product…which isn’t even out of beta yet…and kicked it up to a whole new level. Finally a worthwhile excuse for having high speed Internet access that’s legal…

Go play!!!

a brief history of the bikini…

(courtesy of On This Day a la reference.com)

Fact of the Day: bikini

The bikini debuted at a Paris fashion show on July 5, 1946. The skimpy two-piece bathing suit was designed by Louis Reard. It was named after an atoll in the Pacific Ocean where the world’s first peacetime atomic-weapons test was conducted at Bikini on July 1, 1946.

flying sparks and light sabers…

* Just got home…now watching fireworks out my office window as I write up a review for Star Wars – Episode 3…hoping that my neighbors don’t catch their building on fire and, if they do, that it doesn’t spread over to my own… * 😛

Happy 4th of July!!!

Welcome to July

Wow – where did June go?!

  • Just paid rent and parking for July…amazing how much I don’t have left after I write those two checks!
  • Looking forward to getting my panorama frames in the mail so that I can finally put up the Disney photos.
  • Amazingly after having a horrendously motivated weekend, I didn’t write crap for the past five days…with the exception of blog entries here and there.
  • I need to force myself to write at least one column before I go to bed tonight. The site’s starting to look really great…just need to get off my butt and finish things up.
  • Work was very good today, and should be fun tomorrow also. Crap seems to be happening to other people for a change instead of hitting me directly, and although I do feel bad for them, I’m glad that it’s targeting someone else for a while… 😛
  • Right now I need a weekend that can be both relaxing andproductive…is that even possible?
  • Must find time for Disneyland documentary this weekend that Bob loaned me.
  • No work on Monday. Don’t know where I’m going to go watch 4th of July fireworks yet. At this point, I’d give anything to just go to the beach and watch the sunset with Leslie…