LOL, this auction on ebay is hilarious!
My mom hated my brother’s addiction to video games so much that one time she unplugged the Nintendo and threw it down the basement stairs. My brother practically fell down the stairs going after it and screamed “Nooooo!” during the process, not unlike those in dramatic movies when a fellow soldier bites the dust (person on their knees, hands toward the sky). To this day we make fun of him for it.
What browser do you use to surf the web?
I was reading this pretentious girl’s website today, and she was bitching about people who use Internet Explorer. I happen to use IE because I prefer the way it renders websites. I used to use Netscape exclusively until their development team decided they didn’t feel like adding any new features to it.
And unlike a lot of people out there, I am not necessarily that interested in having the latest, greatest designed site in the universe. If you can view it and it doesn’t look like crap, I’m happy. I also don’t like people who think just because they like something better, it’s the only thing everyone else should be using. Kiss my ass you snobs. Good for you that you prefer -insert software here-, that does not mean you’re superior to anyone else, so step off your high horse already. There’s nothing more annoying than people who have to brag about what they have and how it’s so much better than what anyone else has. That’s all objective anyway.
That being said, I did decide to look into the other browser alternatives, particularly because Joe and I have been hit with spyware too often recently. I was reading this is particularly because of how IE is so integrated with Windows; it’s easy for parasites and the like to get into your system folders and wreak havoc on your machine. It happened to me at work two weeks ago and I managed to “fix” it, other than an error I get upon startup that I cannot fix without access to the Registry, which I do not have. Leave it up to my I.T. Department to disable RegEdit but still allow me administrative rights to my machine. Not that I’m complaining – I like being able to download and install things. :)
Joe ended up having to reinstall Windows this week due to a parasite that wouldn’t go away. Personally, I think there should be a way to prosecute the website owners where this comes from. I got my parasite from visiting a website with restaurant listings and before I knew it, my machine was downloading and installing programs without my consent and I couldn’t even get them to stop in time. It was very frustrating. It’s no longer safe to do casual surfing online without the fear of jacking up your machine.
I ended up downloading Opera and Firefox to try them out. So far I prefer Opera because it has a lot of neat features, particularly how it handles pop-ups and new windows. I did notice that both new browsers render this journal a bit funky, so I may work on that in the coming days if I’m up to it. But everything else looks ok.
Which reminds me – another thing that aggravated me off about this girl is how she was all high and mighty about people designing their sites using tables. Well excuse me Miss Know It All, but some of us do not have the time, nor the knowledge, to design their sites in nothing but CSS. Maybe you should just shut up.
Anyway, can you tell she touched a nerve? Yes, I design with tables, because I know and understand tables and they give me the result I’m looking for. If perhaps the default layout that MT provides didn’t go all funky, I wouldn’t have been forced to use tables to correct it. But I digress …
I came across this really awesome software (free, mind you) called Yahoo Pops. It’s really cool because it allows you to read your Yahoo Mail from your preferred email client on your machine without having to upgrade to a premium Yahoo! account. Very nice.
Check out this spam I got in my Yahoo account yesterday:
Dear user of “Yahoo.com” mailing system, Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information. Please, read the attach for further details.
Cheers,
The Yahoo.com team
They attached a file which of course I did not open. I wonder how many people will fall for that one. Rule #1 – Any place that has an account in your name will never contact you and ask for your account information because they already have it!
I swear, the least the spammers could do is use a program like Word to correct their glaring grammatical errors.
Ok, something ate my cookie setup for MT a long time ago … and I never bothered to investigate it. So after upgrading to the latest version, I decided to redo the comment templates in case I jacked them up somehow. But yet the damn thing still doesn’t remember people! I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Anyone have any ideas? I’m heading over to the MT forum right now, but thought I’d ask.