This is the least of the problems with this, but shouldn't it be "smote" or perhaps "Smited", not "smitten"?

I'm pretty sure it's being used correctly. The romantic connotation comes from the idea of being struck by a feeling instead of by a lightning bolt.

OK, my dictionary does say "smitten or smote."

Want OS X Chrome.

I read this as "Want OS X chromosome" at first and was wondering if that was the Cylon gene.

Hey, could people maybe stop being assish about the company that Jilli and I work for? Jesus fucking Christ, I mean I had to unsub from the tech thread because of the constant irritation of the gleeful bashing was making me want to hit people. I don't especially dig seeing it in Natter.

Plei, sorry about my twitter FU to MS. I've been having laptop issues for about a week and they boiled over. I forget it's the hand that feeds the Lilybean.

I've also had that issue, having DH working in the insurance industry.

Black hats pay the bills, too.

In news that has nothing to do with pregnancy politics, I put my wee man on the SCHOOL BUS this afternoon. ACK! Freaked me right out.

On the School Bus!!!

No, not POSSIBLE.

I KNOW!

Hee--saw this over at DailyKos:

There are no Republican "reformers." Just different flavors of crooks. This one just happens to be salmon jerky.

I put my wee man on the SCHOOL BUS this afternoon. ACK! Freaked me right out.

Aw!

I put my wee man on the SCHOOL BUS this afternoon. ACK! Freaked me right out.

The first time is freaky.

In regards to Microsoft, I can say I have had positive experiences with Vista. Works just great on my work computer, and even on my cheap laptop with 1GB of ram. From all the talk I thought I would need to upgrade the memory, but I was pleased to discover that I didn't need to. I like some of the new media handling stuff as well, it discovered and interfaced with my Linux media server without having to do a thing.