Lokking for a simple EDITOR (ARGHHHH)

First up, working on the ACER with the little mouse pad thingy in the middle IS-A-PAIN.

Where in the heck do you rest your right palm if you're a hunt and peck typist, like me? (Now I'm sounding like a Techie Andy Rooney).

Anyway, I'm kinda getting used to the different keyboard, that just takes time, but in Vista, why don't the have a simple text editor like the old notepad?

Word Pad Is Not The Same. Too much for Q&D editing of blogs. I like editing my blogs, and ideas, on something like qedit on Linux

Put in notes, add web addresses copy and pasted from Firefox or Opera. Simple, elegant.

From My notes and rough blogging in qedit, I just cut and paste to Blogger and then in Blogger add the Highlights, Color and Text sizes.

Simple, elegant and mainly the way I like to work.

So where can I find a simple, no frills text editor?

That is the question....

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Vista Vectors Welcome: Just Like Old Times...

My dvd drive died after a week of work on the new Windows Vista. Turns out it didn't die it just disappeared. Vista didn't know it was still there.

Googled the web for a fix and found I wasn't the only one having this %&^# problem. A quick fix was erasing a line in the registry (Yeah, that is Spooky!), but it worked for me.

This is the link to the registry hack similar to the one I used and matches my possible cause of error, Putting a blank DVD in the the drive and leaving it there. Hmmm.

Vista DVD -Drive registry fix (be Very Careful with registry modification).


Ah, windows, just like OLD-Times

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Side notes to myself:
Python on Vista?
Someone's done it, this from his web page:

June 22, 2006
Installing python msi on Windows Vista

Finally I've managed to install python on my Windows Vista!
Every time I tried to install the .msi package it was stopping work just after selecting the destination folder and I was going crazy to find a solution..
Then I managed to install it correctly using msiexec

msiexec /i python-2.4.3.msi TARGETDIR="C:\Program Files\Python24" ALLUSERS=1 /qb

( http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.3/ where to get python-2.4.3.msi )