Calling Windows Experts

My machine is being _really_ slow for the past week. Checking the task manager tends to show that the actual processes are taking a percentage or two - but that the kernel times are at at least 25%. Is there any way of telling what's sucking up all of the kernel time?

Remember how the new anti-terror laws trapped the German bombers?

Well, actually, no. They didn't.

The Job meme

By way of approx 50% of my f-list:
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top umpty results:

So it knows me pretty damn well. Except for the ones in bold...
(And I'm never doing support again)

1. Computer Support Person
2. Computer Programmer
3. Computer Engineer
4. Multimedia Developer
5. Business Systems Analyst
6. Database Developer
7. Web Developer
8. Project Manager
9. Video Game Developer
10. Electronics Engineering Tech
11. Electrical Engineering Tech
12. Avionics Tech
13. Optical / Ophthalmic Lab Technician
14. Broadcast Technician
15. Industrial Engineering Tech
16. Helicopter Pilot
17. Pilot
18. Engineering Tech
19. Mechanical Engineering Tech
20. Website Designer
21. Mathematician
22. Electrical Engineer
23. Stationary Engineer
24. Astronomer
25. Technical Writer
26. Industrial Designer
27. Power Plant Operator
28. Historian
29. Special Effects Technician
30. Operations Research Analyst
31. Drafter
32. Office Machine Repairer
33. Physicist
34. Interior Designer
35. Electrician
36. Aerospace Engineer
37. Costume Designer
38. Mechanical Engineer
39. Set Designer
40. Fashion Designer

Videos for you

I somehow missed Catherine Tate vs David Tennant on Children in Need:

Thank goodness amberite brought it to my attention. We all need a bit of Shakespeare in our lives after all.

And also this:

which my brother drainboy sent me, and is a stroke of genius. I don't know how to describe it, except to say that had I a woman I was trying to woo, a guitar and a friend with a deep voice and a tiny piano _this_ is how I would do it.

Lost, in a good X

After someone being quoted saying "It doesn't matter how good the technology is, nothing's quite as immersive as a good book."
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