There are tons of interesting facts but does anyone really know the fun facts about our past presidents? To give a little bit of appreciation to our past Presidents and Forefathers, I did some research on the Internet and came up with some interesting trivia that was most appropriate as we have just past Election Day for the new Presidential Elect. Regardless of whether you voted for Democrat or Republican these interesting facts should be appreciated.

• President James Madison (1809-1817) was quite short as he stood 5 feet 4 inches
• President Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) was the tallest; 6 feet 4 inches
• President William Howard Taft (1901-1913) was the heaviest as his weight reached 300 lbs at one time. Due to his heavy stature, he literally got caught in the White House bathtub
• President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) was the oldest to be elected into office; he was 69 years of age
• President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) was the youngest to be elected into office; he was 43 years of age
• President Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) was the first president to see a baseball game of the Cincinnati Reds against the Washington Senators; the Reds won 7-4
• President John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) was known to take his morning swims in the Potomac River in the nude

United States Presidential trivia is courtesy of National Geographic News
National Geographic News, Roach. J, (August 27, 2004)

After hearing (and reading) all of the pros and cons on Windows Vista I decided to install it onto my own system and test it for myself. So after I partioned a 500 gig Seagate SATA (recently discussed) I actually decided to see exactly what all the fuss is about with this operating system. Let me tell you, it is absolutely NOTHING in comparison to what the prior operating systems I have worked with over the years. I didn’t know what to think when I was seeing some of the different icons on the interface.

The interface looked nice but what threw me off was the widgets on the right side of the screen. As soon as you boot up, it shows a round clock that reminds me of something I used to see when I was sitting in a cafeteria. Underneath it was a small box with changing photographs then underneath it was another widget. I suppose that was Windows way of helping the user so they don’t have to keep bring up the program itself. But my thought on that is, why bother having this clock that looks like a huge cafeteria clock when you already have a digital clock in the task bar.

I will admit after installing Windows Vista and exploring it for 48 hours, I started seeing things in a different light. The interface is surely different in comparison to prior versions of Windows. The largest improvement that I noticed with Vista is the system actually ran a lot faster of course it could have been because I was running a 3.1 gig dual-core with 4 gigs of RAM in comparison to my 1.3 gig CPU with 512 meg of RAM.

At any rate, I have been slowly installing programs which I used on my previous system and trying them out for a few days then if all works okay I will install another one or two. The one thing I had discovered on it which drove me totally batty was how a dialog box keeps appearing to confirm that I want to install a program. The second issue experienced with Vista was after I removed an application there were left over files that needed to be manually deleted. So when I manually deleted them I got a dialog box which told me I did not have the authority to. What I discovered shortly thereafter this is Vista has a setting that protects the user from deleting files so “just in case” something important is not eliminated. All in all Windows Vista is not a bad operating system.

After months I have located the cell phone that I want. My husband and I were shopping at of all places Wal-Mart. Well anyway, they have a display of cell phones in our store so I went and looked to see what was available. Sure enough the two I had been looking at were available so we stopped by and took a view. The ones that got my interest were the Sony Erickson and the Blackberry Curve 8310; the list was a lot longer but after research I worked it down to just the two and this did include the newest Iphone 3.

I decided after researching one of the above would fit my needs it was a matter of physically seeing which was going to be more beneficial and weighing the pros and cons. After reviewing them at the store, the Blackberry Curve had all of the advantages. It was more than just the looks it was what the Blackberry provided in the package. My husband and I both travel so the capability of having the GPS was important and I liked the option of having the ability to send text messages. A large issue was having the capability to pick up a signal when we needed it and we felt the only way to do that was to have a quad band.

Here is a link to the Blackberry Curve 8310.