Punish whom you might ask? Glad you did. It is my personal opinion that they serve to punish you a.k.a. me. How? Let me start from the beginning. I have been a longtime user of Nero 7. I ponied up the dough which was about $60 for the program. Well, Nero 8 has come out and guess how much it will cost me to upgrade to Nero 8? You guessed wrong: $59.99 is the princely sum. Needless to say, I will not be upgrading anytime soon. There’s another piece of software on my computer that needs upgrading (Acronis True Image Home 11 from version 10), but again, it’ll cost about ~ $30 to upgrade. *sigh* I’ll be doing all/any software upgrades during the new year. I will take my chances with “old” software. In other news, a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 is out! Key word: release candidate (RC)Â not release-to-manufacture (RTM) so use at your own risk. Me, unless there’s some serious vulnerability that doesn’t involve protecting me again obvious evils like visiting bad sites, I’m not touching that service pack. Lord knows that might be all my poor desktop needs to kick the bucket. Tonight, M and I will be hanging out at J & J’s. Should be fun with Tyler and Sadie. 🙂