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From IHT:

Opera Software’s market share is microscopic, at less than 1 percent. But the Oslo-based company’s launch of an advertising-sponsored version of Opera 5.0 for Windows intends to heat up the competition…

Hrm. I would really be interested in knowing if more people would use alternative internet software (as in non-MS, non-Netscape) if most of the developers would stop the insistence on putting advertisements in unless you pay for it (as in Opera or Eudora). Also, I think Opera would be a viable option for some people, if it didn’t suck so bad.

How come most people, the ones who are supposed to help you in particular, simply tell you that the problem you are having is your own fault, and that they cannot help you, despite the fact that it’s their job to? Everyone in the office has a problem with Photoshop locking up while saving to a specific server, using DAVE to connect to it. What then happens is that the file you crashed while saving didn’t get totally written, and the file is now impossible to open. This is a problem. And yet the network guy just keeps telling me ‘it’s a Photoshop problem,’ and walking away, offering nothing in the way of help. Motherfucker. I could fucking punch him.

So Bush is the pres. Wow. The best thing to come from this presidency? I bet it’ll be some really decent screwups for ‘The Daily Show’ to capitalize on. That’s about it. I could go on and on here about Republicans and Democrats, but I’m too tired.

So before this whole weblog thing got started (or at least before I knew what ‘Blogger’ was…), I started reading this online journal. I’ve found it nearly impossible to pull myself away from it, and get really excited when I forget about it over a weekend, and there’s multiple posts to read on Monday morning. Isn’t that odd? I mean, I hardly know this guy (at least in person: he writes about just about anything), and yet I find it terribly fascinating that he writes about his life online, every day, or very nearly. I even got a postcard from him from Texas over his Thanksgiving trip home. So check it out, if you feel the need to know far too much about someone you don’t know. Strange, this internet thing.

This page is all of a sudden too cluttered. I just wanted to let you know that I know this. Hrm.

I just consciously realized something: when I read ‘OS X,’ I say ‘Oh-Ess-EX’ in my head, but when I say it out loud, I pronounce it ‘Oh-Ess-Ten.’ Which is weird.

Have you installed MS Entourage with Office 2001 lately, only to have Internet Explorer crash on you every time you have them both running? I came across an easy fix for this: install Entourage or IE on a separate drive or partition, and they play nice together.

Those of you who know me (probably most) will dig this:

Kudos to Keil for the awsome icons.

I believe both those sites are part of a ‘viral marketing’ campaign being unleashed by the geniuses who do the ‘Buddy Lee’ Lee Dungarees denim ads. In the TV ads, Buddy Lee (the lovable doll who always wins in the end) competes against both Supergreg and Rubberburner (DJing, the former and go-cart racing, the latter). So I believe ‘Rubberburner’ refers to burning rubber in a go-cart.

I had totally forgotten about this, but when I first discovered the IHT, I sent them an email relaying my thoughts about it probably being the best site ever. I just got a response today from them, hand-typed by a human, telling me thank you, and to use it often. That’s rad. More than that, it’s k-rad.