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The Incompatible Stories of Oz

January 21st, 2009 @ 11:58 PM

After having watched the movie of The Wizard of Oz, reading the original book, and seeing the musical Wicked, those three stories collectively have to be the most incompatible take on the same world ever. You have characters in completely different roles, plot points that are in direct contradiction, and overall basically just three entirely different stories that happen to share a few elements in common. Sure, you can say that the book is the true story and it’s the fault of the others for being different (also since the book came first), but it’s like if you want to know the “story” of Oz, you better choose only one to go with.

We’re using SQL Server Express for my database class, and that has to be one of the hardest and most annoying installs I’ve ever had to go through. I basically had to manually install four things before I could get SQL Server to install successfully, and on top of that there were two or three restarts in the middle of all that. All this, and I really don’t even want the program on my computer! The uninstall prodecure better go a heck of a lot smoother in about four months…

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