Yesterday was not a good day for me.

I receive the new Logitech V470 mouse that I ordered from Westworld Computers in Edmonton. Through trial and error, I discovered that it isn’t compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.1 (apparently the sales guy didn’t know that Apple was seeding 10.6.1 already … until I told him about it!). Well, I guess I’ll be going back to my semi-working mouse until I go into the city next week. I’m be returning it then. Stee-rike # 1!

During my trial and error process to see if my mouse was working, the power supply on my PC desktop decided to go on a permanent vacation. Stee-rike #2!

The good news is that I ordered a Flip UltraHD (I will review it when I get it!) from Staples/Office Depot, and I should get it either on Monday or Wednesday of next week. I’m looking forward to getting the camcorder so I can record some videos for YouTube and my MLSP page.

I watched a movie last night called “The Soloist” with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx.

This movie is based on the true story of LA Times columnist Steve Lopez when he happened to find a musical prodigy, named Nathaniel Ayers, living on the streets. It turns out, after making a few phone calls, that Nathaniel dropped out of Julliard after nearly 2 years due to a mental condition.

Steve Lopez (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) develops an article about Nathaniel (superbly played by Jamie Foxx), and befriends him. Steve wants to get Nathaniel back to music, because it seems to be an escape to a different world for Nathaniel. He seems to have a purpose and a deep love (some would almost call an “obsession”) for music.

Steve, through his many contacts, is able to get Nathaniel a place to live within the LAMP Community program so he can get established. At first, Nathaniel is deeply opposed to Steve’s help, but eventually accepts Steve’s help.

Steve also finds Nathaniel’s sister, Jennifer (played by Lisagay Hamilton), as the 2 were estranged due to Nathaniel’s mental condition.

I highly recommend you watch this movie. You won’t be sorry that you watched this movie. It’s just a great movie!

I received my copy of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) on Wednesday, and decided to install it last night.  The 60+ minute (yikes!) install went very smoothly, and is up and running perfectly.  It even got rid of my old Symantec anti-virus that I installed (and it wouldn’t even work ‘cuz it wasn’t fully Intel compatible).

The only glitch is that I discovered that the installation gave me a version of Adobe Flash player with some sort of vulnerability.  (Tsk tsk Apple!)  A quick download fixed that this morning.

Now I just have to wait for my copy of Windows 7 to get here in the last week of October (and I have to get 4 more GB’s of RAM and a bigger hard drive).  My ol’ 80 gigger just doesn’t cut it anymore.  I’ll also be running Windows 7 64-bit.  It won’t be a bad little system though.  It will be a fast little system (Asus M3A78-EM, e-GeForce 7200 GS, 8 GB RAM, 1TB WD Black HDD, and a TSSTCorp SH-S223Q DVD burner).   Not a bad little basic system … it does what I need it to do.  And since I don’t play any games, it’ll hold its own for a long time.