Giving thanks to the Supreme Being

Hurricane Dean was the second major hurricane that was headed straight for Jamaica (Ivan in 2004 was the other one) since I have been living here.
Let me tell you, I come from Guyana where we have no natural disasters and whenever a hurricane is due this way, I really question why the *$*$%*%*$*$%$ did I leave Guyana :-).
Just giving thanks to God for sparing Jamaica a direct hit yet again.
God, I give you all my thanks.
rsp

Ashamed to admit it.....

But as liberal as I am in most areas, I am very conservative with my views on crime. I hate to admit that I do agree on some issues with those on the Fox Network et. al. I am old school..... an eye for an eye, if a man rapes (and I not speaking about 'she say he rape her', I am speaking about rape when there is physical evidence, dna etc) cut his penis off, kind of guy. I rarely believe in prisoner reform and 'rehabilitation'. Their victims usually do not get that second chance.......
Case in point, Jah Cure.
Jah Cure is a dancehall singer who was tried and convicted of rape here in Jamaica under, quite frankly, conditions that if I was arranging his sentencing he would never again see the light of day outside a prison walls. During this 'incarceration', he has been allowed to record and release songs etc. Anyway he was recently released and I will continue to boycott his songs, even separate and apart from finding his vocal tone and vocal stylings annoying and irritating, unless he was to donate at least 50% of his income to his rape victims.
A talented criminal is still a criminal and they should have kept him in jail for the rest of his life as far as I am concerned.
rsp

It isn't even close.....

Ok, had my first real exposure to Microsoft's Vista.......It to me is not even close how much better an OS is OSX to this piece of crap. I think XP was making some headways, but Vista really!!!
First of all things are completely not in the old place they used to be. I have never used a Macintosh or Linux computer, and I have been using Macs for almost 20 years, where I could not figure my way around the new OS in under two minutes without opening a book. I have no idea what Redmond was thinking by this complete re-arranging of stuff in Vista. Not to mention in this half an hour not only could I not get to configure a Wireless Secure connection that wasn't broadcasting its SSID (God forbid you decide to make your network a little more secure), but even trying to right click disable the wireless connection or enable it caused a complete OS crash.....Goes to show that the unfortunately we live in a world where quantity (that is the market share) over quality still rules.
By the way, Apple's Security Ad about the annoying security prompts of Vista was not only humourous but completely correct. What a pain in the ass it is.
rsp