New blogs
New to the blog-sphere, staybecca and her sister goruth. They make a heck of a pare. One is going off on an adventure in the North Eastern U. S. The other is staying in Houston. Can you figure out which is which?

Next Machine
The world might be ready for Kelly to get a 64 bit desktop. Worry not, it will be a long time before I can afford anything like that. I vowed to wait until the community caught up with all the problems that 64 bit brings with it.
Gain
    o   Larger memory chunk makes many programs run faster.
    o   Handle more memory in a shorter amount of time. Though this is not a problem yet. The OS limits the RAM right now.
    o   Allow for bigger numbers in fewer process steps. Handy in vectoring like games.
Loss
    o   Community doesn't support 64 bit 100% and probably won't until they absolutely have to.
    o   64 bit code seems not to be as tested in some cases. It seems like they write in 32 bit and convert to 64 bit. This is changing.
    o   Some 64 bit chips had heat problems, but this seems to be a manufacturer screw-up.
Neutral
    o   64 bit is twice as big a number on your processor and therefor twice as good.

Argentina
One of my coworkers saw a couple of guys with Argentina shirts on headed to the twelfth floor with several cases of beer. The U. S. played this morning. I haven't heard how it went. We have got to get our shit together on football. We look like a bunch of chumps. This is an international building. We hear many languages in the elevators. I like it. I wish I spoke Spanish. Some of the guys who do speak Spanish say it is difficult to follow some of the folks because they talk so fast and have a dialect they are not used to.