There it is.

There it is.

There it is.

Finally a morning when I wake up early! I've been prolonging my bedtimes in waves the last month, but now they seem to be going back to normal again. I probably fell asleep before 1 yesterday cause I don't remember much after shutting the shutters at 11:40. Good thing. It probably has something to do with not booting my DS and playing some something for some time. Hmm, is that all there is to sleeping peacefully?

On a sidenote, what about bedtime deadlines? Is there a personal limit? Do different people have easier falling asleep before a certain time? I notice that if I stay up past midnight the difficulty level in falling asleep suddenly rises greatly. Is that a common denominator or is there a different time for everyone? Is this difference one bound by elementary routine, or is it genetically developed, or does it have to do with something else? Interesting questions, the answers not in possession... yet. As is the question with so many answers. Today I have some blogpost-sorting to do though, a job that would last forever if I let it. Time to get to it. No more posts till that's done.

I remember reading some time way back that support for Windows XP was going to end before long. If it was in 2011 or early this year I don't know, but if things were going according to plan it should have ended by now. It hasn't. I read another post recently that suggested support would be open till April 2014. That's an official statement btw. As of 2011 over 200 million machines were still running Windows XP, so I guess Microsoft realized it was too early to shut down guidance for paying customers of this still so ambient yet thriving OS.

I suppose one of the main reasons that XP still exists with such a large userbase is the Vista failure. Vista wasn't only a very defiant and unreliable OS, but it was also very power-hungry. It hogged more resources than Windows XP did. In fact, it more than doubled the resource hogging in process. Vista really wasn't any good. My sister had it on a laptop (it's crashed for good since a while back) and it was just disappointment after disappointment all the way. Windows 7 was a breeze of fresh air after that, so it seems Microsoft learned from their mistakes. I remember going to a Vista release party, or preview, or something, and when I tried playing Chess on one of the demo computers it crashed! I suppose that says something about the quality. :) As for OS 7, it's amazingly light on resources. According to spec it needs less than XP, and that's a feat considering it's evolved much featurewise.

Still, it's amazing that Windows XP lives on. It was launched back in 2001, so it's been thriving for over a decade. Whoa, wait a minute... that means XP came out when I was just 12 years old. Has it really been that long? I remember using Windows 98 in school and Windows NT in high high school. They switched to XP just before I graduated n 2007. Our first home computer with Windows came with XP, back in... 2002... 2003? The years fly.

Windows 7 came installed with the computer I bought a couple of years back, so for my part the upgrade was automatic. Most of the programs I had used on XP worked. The ones that didn't could be replaced. A few games didn't make the move, but fortunately all my favorites did. :) Games like Oni, GTA SA & Doom still run perfectly on Windows 7. If they didn't, maybe I would have actually downgraded back to XP. For a lot of people the move wasn't as easy as mine though. There are lots of programs that work on XP that don't work on 7 and don't really facilitate a move. Especially if they're custom-made.

So Windows XP will be supported until 2014. At least. What about Vista? 2017. More importantly, what about support for Windows 7? How long will that last? Windows 7 came out in 2009. I started using it in 2011. According to Microsoft, support (that includes security updates, etc) will be available till 2020, regardless of edition. Considering how XP was prolonged, I hope it'll be the same with 7. Don't know about 8, but 7 is still the ideal OS. It's perfect. Vista sucked, but everything was fixed for the sequel. Is the next one just as good? Can it really get better? I doubt. I hope Windows 7 will live just a bit longer.

Still no side-effects. I noticed not a thing. I noticed the cheese tasting a bit bitter though. Is that the taste of mold? Is that the taste of cheese when it's grown old? Who knows? I don't. I ate another sandwich today, pre-made the day before yesterday, with a different cheese, and whaddayaknow, this one had mold on it too! Am I being paranoid here? It seems I'm being pursued. I'll keep you posted.