What the hell?

The new conspiracy in my life has been perpetrated by none other than evil evil Microsoft Corporation.

This week they've updated Silverlight to version 2. I don't even know what a "Silverlight" is, but apparently it's the Microsoft version of Macromedia Adobe Flash. You know, a "browser plug-in that allows users to view and interact with rich media on the Web".

(Why "web" is capitalized, I'm just not sure).

Anyway, mlb.com, where I listen to the Red Sox baseball games, uses Silverlight.

And Silverlight 2.0 isn't available for Linux, which my EEE PC runs.

So now I can't even listen to the games on the computer.

And no, we don't have a radio in our tenement-esque apartment.

So tonight I had to watch text updates of the baseball game on the Yahoo GameChannel. I've been reduced to DOS baseball.

It was that or go out in the driveway and sit in the car to listen to the game on the radio. And that seemed really sad. And chilly.

So before the next game? Time to invest in a radio.