{"id":3957,"date":"2008-01-28T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/welcome-back-vista\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T09:14:00","slug":"welcome-back-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/welcome-back-vista.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Vista!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Having struggled in vain to get Windows XP to work on my computer (with an nVidia GeForce motherboard and graphics card), and finding indications from others that the blue screen of death (BSOD for those who experience it so often they need an abbreviation) is par for the course when the two are combined, I have returned to Vista. My hesitation to do so was not simply because of issues experienced previously (<a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/vista-black-screen-after-login.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my \u201cblack screen after login\u201d post<\/a> continues to get a remarkable number of hits each day from all over the world)  but also out of a desire to avoid a complete reformatting of my hard drive until all other options had been explored. Fortunately I did not lose much in the experience, and whatever I did last time to cause the black screen after login, apparently I haven\u2019t done it yet!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, in last week\u2019s blogospheric activity, the following are worth noting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/interweavers.com\/brett\/humor\/discourse.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to win any argument<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christilling.de\/blog\/2008\/01\/how-to-win-any-argument.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tilling<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/01\/theres_going_to_be_a_lot_more.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pharyngula<\/a> points to a cartoon that clearly shows that the opponents of science have no idea what scientists\u2019 lives are like or why they do what they do.<\/p>\n<p>IO9 has a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/348262\/dumbest-space-gods-in-science-fiction\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">dumbest space gods<\/a> in science fiction, which I have yet to give the careful read it deserves from someone fascinated by the intersection of religion and sci-fi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-763347390094730879?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having struggled in vain to get Windows XP to work on my computer (with an nVidia GeForce motherboard and graphics card), and finding indications from others that the blue screen of death (BSOD for those who experience it so often they need an abbreviation) is par for the course when the two are combined, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welcome Back Vista!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Having struggled in vain to get Windows XP to work on my computer (with an nVidia GeForce motherboard and graphics card), and finding indications from\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/welcome-back-vista.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welcome Back Vista!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Having struggled in vain to get Windows XP to work on my computer (with an nVidia GeForce motherboard and graphics card), and finding indications from\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/01\/welcome-back-vista.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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