Happy birthday, Mom!

I got a copy of Parallels 7 for Mac cheaply, so I thought that I’d install it (easy; it’s a Mac application)

then ‘contaminate’ my Apple Macintosh computer by installing Microsoft Windows 7 (free-of-charge through F.S.U.)

so that I could install, then use for my F.S.U. Project Management course,

Microsoft Office Project 2010 and Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (provided by F.S.U.).

When using Parallels to install Windows on a hard drive, I immediately found a problem (sigh….).

I Google-searched for help/advice, using the error message that Windows had shown to me: “The unattended answer file contains an invalid product key. Either remove the…”

Among the search results that Google provided were questions and answers on Parallel’s support forum, including:

Error message about unattended file when upgrading Virtual Machine to Windows 7

… on a weekend without any race spectating in person or on television, home alone doing homework,

I’m eager to go to the 12 Hours of Sebring about a month from now.

Would anyone really download the attached zip file then open it?!

(because I switched start-up hard drives) »→

Regarding adulation of Facebook and its founder in news articles highlighting Facebook’s economic growth and its pending Initial Public Offering of common stock:

“This is the pinnacle of achievement and admiration in the 21st century? I can click the mouse and “friend” someone or “like” something? Give me a break. What about people who have found ways to cure illness, tackle violence and hatred in society, … Of course, the Salks, Gandhis, and Einsteins of the world didn’t make a lot of money, which is what most of this admiration is really about.” – K. Powell of Tucson, Arizona

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York hired Anita Collins, a two-time embezzler on probation, who since has embezzled from the archdiocese more than a million dollars in seven years!

She stole every month but one while employed by the archdiocese, averaging $142,857 per year if the total were exactly one million.

But not until December 2011 did anyone notice that money had been misappropriated. And no supervisor of Collins is charged with complicity or disciplined for gross negligence. »→

U.S. Secretary of Offense Leon Panetta said today that U.S. military forces will withdraw from combat in Afghanistan as early as middle of 2013, more than a year before all American troops had been scheduled to come home. This is the first statement of an intended withdrawal ‘date.’