If you're reading this and you're in high school then let me tell you something: Those aren't the best days of your life.

My high school days were hellish for me. But I wouldn't have it any other way. They gave me a healthy chip on my shoulder. Sure, it's negative, it's ugly, and whatever. But it motivated me to work harder to succeed in life.

Since I was of the nerd class in high school, far down in the food chain and made to feel unworthy, there's a certain satisfaction at being successful in life. Success as in happiness, wealth, home life, future prospects, health, etc. But it didn't come easily. It took a lot of hard work over a long period of time. And I'm not ashamed to admit that part of the motivation to do that work was to right the injustices (real and imagined) of those earlier years.

So next time someone says that those are the best years of your life, pity them. They're not.

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Stardock has released WindowBlinds 4.4 onto Object Desktop. It's a pretty big step up from WindowBlinds 4.3 as being the most significant performance increase in visual style handling in years.

It also supports shellstyles being at the top of a folder rather than merely on the left side (see screenshot).

SkinStudio 4.4 is now available on Object Desktop as well and enables importing of msstyles that have unusual shell styles.

Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancements that includes WindowBlinds, DesktopX, ObjectBar, IconPackager, and most of the other programs you would need to totally customize the look and feel of Windows.

For those people who are so ideologically biased that they are still fighting the good fight about the CBS memos, here's a document expert who goes into great detail as to why these documents could not have been done in 1973.

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Things keep getting worse and worse for CBS as the evidence mounts that the memos they used to try to make George W. Bush look bad were simply cranked out on MS Word using its default settings rather than in 1973.

The denials from the left are really almost..sad at this point. Can you imagine if criminal investigations were this partisan? "You can't trust that finger print, sure it matches exactly but if you can't prove that someone else in the world doesn't have that same finger print you must acquit!"

Here are some links of interesting.

http://peterduncan.net/CBS_Documents.html (this one steps you through why it's definitely a hoax - anyone who remotely doubts that these documents are fake should read this).

http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/004892.html

http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/index.php?/weblog/entry/the_protein_wisdom_interview_dan_rathers_ego1/

http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200409111432.asp

Sometimes I ask, rhetorically, what is the right-wing equivalent to Democratic Underground? The far left of the US population seems to be foaming in angst and hatred that I find quite disturbing.

I surf the web a great deal and there are no right wing sites of anywhere near the scale of DU that top this sort of thing in virtriol and hatred. 

At this points, anyone even remotely interested in this story who is on-line has seen the compelling evidence that the memos CBS used to prove that Bush was getting special treatment in the National Guard were in fact forged.

Here's an animated GIF from LGF that shows the CBS received memo vs. a 2004 Windows XP MS Word document with all the default settings.  The evidence is pretty conclusive. You can't even get this close using a different word processor let alone using a type writer (regardless of what imagined abilities of some magical type writer from 1973, it still wouldn't look this exact).

The question is, how long will CBS stick to its guns when it's obvious the documents are a hoax?

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