Oh, by the way, I topped 40,000 blocked spam comments today.

Akismet rocks.

Yes, indeed. I want a tablet. A Wacom Intuos3, to be exact. Except that it's expensive. Special Edition is 399.00, Regular Edition is 369.95, and it's one of those "I'd like to try this, but I'm not sure if I'll turn it into anything besides a passing interesting" things. But I would enjoy learning how to draw neat looking stuff on the computer without using a mouse, and having a nice little Undo feature instead of an eraser that messes up everything else that you don't want erased. Lazy, maybe, and I've heard people go on about how the digital art form is taking away the uniqueness of physical art forms. But, you know what? I really don't care. If it makes me happier knowing I can undo a mistake with CTRL+Z instead of somehow working around it, then I'm going to do it that way. Welcome to the world of a perfectionist bordering obsessive compulsive. (Except for the state of his room.)

Let's put it this way! Things I care about I have to make perfect to the point where I'm in a bad mood until it works just the way it should. You can ask the people who've worked with me about that, if you don't believe me.

So I was poking around my hard drive search index the other day and I started going down the list and I saw a folder called "Apple Computer" in my "ProgramData" folder. (Haha, betcha can guess where this is going, huh?)

In this "Apple Computer" folder is a folder called "Installer Cache". Inside this "Installer Cache" folder was, I kid you not, ten, if not more, copies of installers for iTunes. Versions from all the way back to the one I first installed on this system, and then however many upgrades I actually made through iTunes. (Like, when it pops up and says, "hey! iTunes version 7.5.0.1.2.4.8.1.8.1.9.6.2.7.0.2.1.5.7 that only fixes issues with our iPhone we really think you should buy is ready to download!") How big is each installer? 30MB? 50MB? Multiply that by 10 to 12. 300 to 500MB of stuff you will never, ever use by yourself. If iTunes explodes, what're you going to do? (Well, besides give up on Apple and get a Zune.) That's right, you're going to download another installer from their site. Why would you do this? Because it would have been common sense for iTunes to erase the installer it downloaded and applied automatically, or at least tell you where it is so you can erase it yourself!

No wonder Windows gets slow and full so fast. Nobody cleans up their trash.