Vista still causes me no end of grief. It looks spectacular. But, silly me, I need to print on a regular basis - that, and I've become completely attached to having 3 monitors. With Vista both of those 'issues' just aren't addressable at this point.

So I dual boot, and spend almost all of my time in XP. But every day I think of upgrading. It's just that I need to get work done most days - and therefore don't have the hours it would take to upgrade.

But I digress...

Tonight I needed to drop to Vista an proof some demos that I'll be presenting next week. Everything worked fine.

Only, imagine my surprise when I booted back to XP - and somehow my machine had been re-re-re-re-compensated for Congress' wonderful decision to make Daylight savings time 'magically' occur a few weeks earlier this year. Honestly, I was kind of pissed to see that I'd somehow managed to spend an extra hour on Vista than I had thought... (just for a second).

Then, after waiting to see if the problem would magically correct itself, I decided to manually set the clock back an hour. Only, in my world it was actually 11:30 PM and XP thought it was Saturday (12:30 AM) not Friday. So toggling the hour back one notch and clicking OK was a BAD idea. Instead of reverting back to 11:30 PM on Friday, I suddenly told my machine that it was 11:30 AM on Saturday.

Of course, all of my nightly scheduled tasks freaked out. I can just imagine it sayying: "Holy bleep!!!! Time warp... somehow the scheduler just missed a whole day... quick! quick! quick! do something before Mike finds out and freaks out!!!"

Sigh, about 5 minutes later I got my machine back, and the clock correctly set. No idea what happens the next time I dual boot into Vista and back...