I've been using Facebook now, since a lot of cousins/sister/friends are on it. Still quite haven't figured out what it does for me, but I have managed to reconnect with old HS and College friends. I suspect Facebook is of less use to me cause I tend to have a small circle of friends, that i manage to keep in touch with otherwise. Plus, I think I'm just outside the target demographic for it. Still, I login to vet friend requests and occasionally update my profile. I normally don't pay attention to the ads but the one below had me scratching my head.

What's the message? Sick of dating, have a Baby and your social life is over? Or is the baby the end game - which might come as news to people who don't plan on having one ... What do you think?

The Congressional Budget office released a report on the costs of illegal immigration for state and local governments [HT: Marginal Revolution]  Unfortunately, the report is only available as a PDF file, but its not overyly long, approximately 13 pages in length. It estmiates the spending by state and local governments due to undocumented immigrants in 3 key ares: Education, Health Care, and Law Enforcement.  Unlike the key paragraph highlighted by MR, the actual document is a lot less clear in its conclusions about related spending. And in fact, state under the Revnues Versus Spending section:

Most of the studies that include both revenues and costs for multiple programs show that state and local governments spend more on unauthorized immigrants than they collect in revenues from that population

Thanks to Sandy for leading me to realize that Marginal Revolution had fallen off of my feed reader.

Much like my dad has done, another Windows Vista customer has "upgraded" a Vista machine to Windows XP.  So, I guess the PR Lady was somewhat correct? BTW - annoying that apple doesn't let you link directly to one of its ads -- its free advertising, mactards!

To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal. From my testing, discussions with friends and colleagues, and a review of the material out there on the web there seems to be no doubt whatsoever that that upgrade to XP is well worth the money.