Dear Windows Vista,

What the everloving what is going on here?

I’m running a nice fancy powerful almost-new desktop PC, only a couple of running programs, plenty of free CPU cycles and gobs of available memory. And you’re telling me that it’s going to take most of three minutes to extract a ZIP file of less than three megabytes? What is this, the early 1990s?

Seriously. Eat hot death.

Yours In Servitude,

- The Little Grey Duck

(And it took even longer than the initial dialog display led me to believe. This is insanity. I’m going to install a 3rd-party archive handler and see if I can improve my simple archive extraction times.)

Let’s make this as clear as possible.

The text you sometimes find before the actual beginning of the book? It’s not called a forward. It’s called a foreword.

A great many otherwise-intelligent people keep making that mistake, and it keeps driving me crazy. So, stop it, everybody.

Thank you.