Belief-O-Matic analysis of my philosophy of life

The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.

Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.

1.	Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2.	Theravada Buddhism (95%)
3.	Liberal Quakers (94%)
4.	Mahayana Buddhism (89%)
5.	Taoism (87%)
6.	Secular Humanism (87%)
7.	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%)
8.	Jainism (77%)
9.	Neo-Pagan (74%)
10.	Hinduism (74%)
11.	Sikhism (72%)
12.	Nontheist (65%)
13.	Baha'i Faith (64%)
14.	Reform Judaism (63%)
15.	Orthodox Quaker (63%)
16.	New Age (55%)
17.	Scientology (51%)
18.	New Thought (48%)
19.	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (47%)
20.	Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%)
21.	Islam (42%)
22.	Orthodox Judaism (42%)
23.	Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (41%)
24.	Seventh Day Adventist (40%)
25.	Eastern Orthodox (38%)
26.	Roman Catholic (38%)
27.	Jehovah's Witness (15%)

Take the quiz yourself at Belief-O-Matic and report the results in the comments, if you're so inclined.

One of these things is not like the other

I have a couple of operating systems under test at the Home Office - Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9.04 are running in VM sessions on my Macintosh.

Windows 7 is a HUGE improvement on Vista - and Ubuntu's gradual evolution just makes this a nicer and nicer product.

I don't plan to abandon the Mac as a primary platform in the foreseeable future... but it's nice to know that the option set is getting steadily better.

Apropos of that, an oldie but a goodie:

A grudging admission

After removing all evidence of problems that were of my own making...

The Vista laptop is actually running pretty well, and it's a pleasure to use.

Despite having successfully used VMware Fusion for a couple of years now -- basically, a canned Windows XP environment lives on my hard disk and I kick it off whenever I need it (not often) - Carrie and I found ourselves in the absurd position of having a houseful of Macintoshes and being in the market for a Windows laptop.

Some of the software Carrie needs to run to crunch the data she's going to visually interpret is Windows-only.

Some software that I need to stay current on - Adobe Framemaker, for instance - is now available for Windows only. Technical authoring in general is heavily weighted towards Windows; most of the more interesting help and e-learning authoring tools are also Windows-only. MadCap products in particular are Windows-only.

We're not giving up our Macs. But we're a multiplatform household now.