Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management Mike Nash posted a new update on his blog on Friday about Microsoft’s plans of releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 2.
The new service pack for Vista is scheduled for Beta testing and evaluation on Wednesday, October 29. Nash wrote. The SP2’s final release date for Windows Vista SP2 will be based on quality and they will need customer and partner feedback before setting the date of release.
The improvements are integrated into a single service pack covering both Windows Vista (client) and Windows Server …

Who will win the west?
Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico are the three Western States that could be crucial on November 4th.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama spent the second-to-last weekend before the general election in these battleground states west of Mississippi. Any of them could help shape who wins the presidency.
Can McCain make a comeback?
A Newsweek poll of registered voters showed Obama with 53 percent to McCain’s 40 percent. The survey found Obama leading in every age group and among men as well as women, and even holding a slim …

Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers is picking his team to repeat as NBA champions and raise their 18th championship banner.
But the west is loaded. The Lakers should be the favorite, but don’t count out the Spurs, Jazz, Hornets, and Rockets (if Yao and T-Mac stay healthy.)
Not since Shaq and Kobe were together has there been so much chat about the NBA champions repeating. In a league where dynasties were once ordinary, the last six champs have been incapable of holding on to their titles. But if any team has the …

Strippers pose backstage before a Sarah Palin look-alike contest at a strip club in Sin City. Contestants competed for $10,000 in prize money and a trip to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration. Now let’s see Tina Fey do this.

Now that it’s almost Halloween, we would like to receive your nominations…

Taylor Momsen will be back onset within days after winning her battle with a serious throat infection.
She was spotted getting back to work on the set of Gossip Girl Friday afternoon and she looked so adorable in this picture.
Gossip Girl’s a chick show and not something I’d normally watch, but sometimes I just watch it because of her.
The 15-year-old actress and model was admitted to a medical facility in Los Angeles and was released from hospital on Wednesday and is now recovering at home, according to People.com.
A statement from the …

Chicago Police have arrested William Balfour, a suspect in the shooting deaths of Jennifer Hudson‘s mother and brother.
As detectives were interrogating the man suspected in the slayings, a search was under way for the Academy Award-winning actress‘ 7-year-old nephew Julian, who had been missing since the killings were discovered.
Balfour is also Julian’s step-father.
Darnelle Donerson and Jason Hudson were gunned down in a home on the South Side of Chicago on Friday in what can only be described as a nightmare come to life.
Darnell was shot in the head …

Top Googlers, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt added a new toy plane to include to their collection of Boeing 757, a refurbished Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream V’s. The latest addition was a 1982 Dornier Alpha Jet…

The space tourist Richard Garriott, together with some Russian cosmonauts, safely returned to Earth from their trip to the International Space Station, Friday, October 24.

Garriott is creator of the Ultima online computer game series. He is also the son of Owen Garriott, a NASA astronaut, making him the first second-generation astronaut. He paid $30 million for his 10-day stay aboard the station. In all, he spent 12 days in space to become the station’s sixth paying visitor and the first American second-generation astronaut.

Together with Garriott are cosmonauts …

The Southeastern province of Hadramaut is now a disaster zone, when floods caused by heavy rains killed at least 24 people on Friday.
Hadramaut Governor Salem al-Khanbashi said the bodies of 18 people who had drowned had been recovered in various parts of the region.
A child was among six other people who perished when four provinces in eastern Yemen were flooded in torrential rains. Witnesses said they saw bodies floating in streams swelled by a downpour that lasted for some 30 hours.
Local authorities tallied more than 500 houses that had been …