Microsoft has released Windows Vista - Service Pack 2. Although the Service Pack hasn’t yet made it to Windows Update, you can now download it from Microsoft’s Download Center. The installer includes Service Pack 2 for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, resulting in a 348.3MB file for 32-bit version and a 577.4MB file for 64-bit version. But, despite the impressive file size, there’s very little to get excited about. The update includes all of the updates released since Service Pack 1—excluding Internet Explorer 8—and not much more.
Microsoft says that the Service Pack will also bring you native writing to Blu-Ray discs, improved Wi-Fi performance when resuming from Sleep mode and support for Bluetooth 2.1.
The Service Pack 2 is available in English, Japanese, Spanish, German and French. If you’ve installed any other language packs, then you’ll have to remove them in order to install the new service pack.
I have given my Internet home page—Cycroft.com—a complete facelift. Links have been updated and a News & Views section has been added. The site serves as a Web portal for my expanding presence in cyberspace and ties together my interests, which include technology, politics, photography, birding, family research, creative writing and sports—along with commentary on politics and social issues, covered in my blog at Blogspot.com, and my photography, covered in my photo blog, The Way I See It.
At the same time, I’ve published one of the Web’s most comprehensive directories of Web resources, providing links to some of the Internet’s most interesting and informative places and spaces. While this directory will be of interest to most users of the Web, bloggers, journalist, students and others who research and write for profit or fun will find it an invaluable resource.
You can see the directory by visiting Cycroft.com and following the link to “Web Resources (links).”
ome with me on a pictorial visit to the Rock Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) located on the border between Burlington and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Rock Garden is one of my favourite places to spend time meandering among the beautiful gardens. At this time of year, tulips and daffodils are in bloom.
To follow along on my walk through the rock Garden, go to my home page at Cycroft.com and follow the link there.
Each spring, the sheltered bowl—a recovered gravel pit—of the Rock Garden bursts into a display of over 100,000 bulbs brought in from growers in Holland and planted in September. After they bloom they are lifted and sold at the RBG’s annual bulb sale.
An introductory interpretive bed displays representatives of each tulip class, and bulbs are labeled throughout the garden to help in identifying the varieties.
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