I'm afraid. Please hold me.

So yesterday's sordid tale began with me mentioning that when I ran the updates on my primary machine (my laptop) I didn't have any of the problems that are mentioned in the remainder of the tale. Sadly, I noticed the little yellow shield in my laptop's system tray today. I clicked on it, and guess what update it says I need? "Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB886903).

I'm afraid. Very afraid. Please hold me.

I should also mention that an OS X update was released today. I downloaded and installed it. End of story. :)

In other news, Enterprise has been officially canceled. This is bumming me out. Yes, the first couple of seasons weren't spectacular, and last year's alien-Nazi's-in-past-earth season cliffhanger (don't ask) was pretty lame. This season has been really good, IMHO. It definitely has potential for some good story lines. Ah, well. So it goes. I'm bummed, but nowhere near as bummed as I was when ST: TNG was canceled. I think that was by far the best post-TOS Star Trek.

Fortunately, there are some other shows drawing me to the hypnotic tube de la boob. (Didn't know I spoke one of those fancy foreign languages, did ya?). My friend Mike finally wore me down and got me hooked on 24. SeDonna and I have really gotten in to this season. It's gotten so bad that we actually started renting the DVD's of the first three season's through the Walmart DVD rental service. We just finished season one this past weekend. Season 2's first two discs arrived today.

Last night I stumbled across another show, House. I'm a big fan of ER so I was intrigued by another medical drama. It is very, very different from ER, but I think I'm already hooked. The season pass in Tivo was created within about 15 minutes after the show started. :)

One other thing I wanted to share. Another friend of mine turned me on to a service called "Bloglines". If you follow several blogs and/or news sites, it's a great way to keep track of it all, and be informed of new items without having to check a bunch of individual sites all the time. Best of all, it's free. It's not perfect, though. The most annoying thing I've found so far is that it can't seem to handle Kevin Rose's site. Even though there are 66 other subscribers to his feed on bloglines, every time I try to look at it through blogines it shows a little error thingy and says the feed doesn't exist. If I delete and re-add the subscription, it doesn't seem to have any problem finding the feed during the setup phase. When it comes to actually polling for new items, however, it continues to get an error. Also, I subscribe to my own site just for grins and giggles, and today it informed me of a "new" post that was from back in January. But for the most part, it works really well.