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A few months ago, Microsoft put out this Clarion call for celebration. We did take their advice from the excellent video they produced and made sure we had a variety of cheeses on hand, but we wanted to bump the energy level up a little.

I got together a few months ago with my neighbors and helped organize a Windows 7 block party. I was in charge of the first salvo of pyrotechnics- on the north side of the block, to be exact. It was more difficult than I thought: I had to set off the fireworks exactly at the 50% install mark (the south side, being at a higher elevation set their rockets off at the first boot).

We had lots of food, speeches by frustrated Vista users and even some Linux conversion calls (I used to think Ubuntu was problem free. I used to snicker at Windows Me...). Dancing.

I took some video:

The Puerto Rican contingent had a good time:

Follow up:

I didn't invite them, but apparently Nazis can smell a parade a hundred miles away. They love bonfires, too. They burned their copies of Vista:

Walking around in a tech haze:

The cops showed up when somebody put up their Windows 7 on bit-torrent.

Other revelers excited about being able to use 4GB of memory:

Kids had fun with the built-in games:

Paul McCartney showed up:

Overall, a party worthy of a great operating system. The only disruption came when some Mac users did a drive-by while we were peacefully inputting the license key. Fortunately, somebody threw their body in front of the test computer.