I put the new Win­dows 7 Pro on my work lap­top today (Dell Lat­i­tude E 5500), and was very impressed in how well it works. The lap­top seems more respon­sive than it did with Win­dows XP.

I have been using Win­dows 7 RC1 on my home com­puter for about 3 months now, and it has been pretty solid. I will con­tinue to use it until the RC runs out June 2010.

My favorite fea­ture is the Win­dows XP mode, where I can install older pro­grams that won’t work with Win­dows 7. Cool thing is that after you install a pro­gram to the vir­tual pc, it shows up on the Win­dows 7 side as well.

I changed the spark plugs in my truck today. I decided to try some E3 plugs I have heard so much about. I had to make two trips to the parts store because they shorted me two plugs, that will teach me to always check the bag.

After I got them installed, I took a lit­tle test drive. The truck did per­form a lit­tle bet­ter, had bet­ter throt­tle response. Of course the other plugs were worn out, I will never put Bosch plugs in a Toy­ota again, they didn’t last even 30k miles.

Only time will tell if they actu­ally make a dif­fer­ence in fuel economy.