Dell Latitude D820 running Windows Vista

This week I took delivery of a new laptop (Dell Latitude D820), specifically purchased to get me up to Windows Vista specification. I installed the base operating system last night and spent about an hour fiddling with the video drivers so that the WUXGA screen was fully utilised and the Aero interface features worked. I must say this creates a much more engaging experience, and I think the additional dollars that you pay for a slightly higher end video card will really pay for itself.

One remaining issue I have is a wierd problem where I take a screenshot it gets pasted out like this:

I actually see the window like this if a UAC dialog pops up as well, so I don’t think my graphics driver issues are completely sorted out (if anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear them).

P.S. I’d like to thank Darren for lugging this all the way from Melbourne for me on Thursday and managing not to replace the contents of the laptop bag with a lump of coal. I don’t think I would have had that much self control.

Is Frank Arrigo into numerology?

I guess that I could ask him, but its much more fun to speculate wildly in the blogosphere. Frank recently posted up the 111th day statistics for TechTalkBlogs. I was mighty chuffed to be in the list of top bloggers (quantity, not quality I am assuming).

What struck me however was the special emphasis that Frank put on certain numbers. I wonder if it is significant?

What is your favourite number. Mine is seven. Its a small prime number and the ideal timeout for a screensaver.