WELCOME TO HELL. POPULATION: DORK
So, I’m in Hell.
If you’re wondering what Hell looks like, it looks pretty much like the reality in which you’re currently grounded, except for the following:
- You suddenly contract some sort of illness that swells all the glands in your neck, makes you tired, troubles your breathing, and make you feel like you’re burning up.
- At the same time, an application upon which you depend to help manage your incoming email, ClearContext, fouls up and stops working. While you are fiddling around with it to fix it, you bork the registry and basically screw up your entire computer system, upon which your livelihood depends. You spend all day trying to get that working again.
- After you fix it, you realize than an entire day has gone by, and the stuff you were panicking about before merits even more panic. Then you realize that the first bullet point means all you want to do is take a freaking nap. Ugh.
I ACTUALLY LIKE INTERNET EXPLORER
Not the current version, 6.0, which is a UI nightmare as well as a welcome mat for hackers, but Version 7.0, which fails to suck very much at all. It took me a while to get used to the different way they do tabs than Firefox/Opera, but once I adjusted, I liked it a great deal.
Unfortunately, the registry borking referred to in bullet point #2 above is stopping me from re-installing it. So, now I’m dependent on Firefox again, which means that I’d be an idiot to try out the new Firefox 2.0 Alpha. Opera 9.0 Beta is better than either released version of IE or Firefox, but there’s no Omea Pro connectors for it, so that’s out.
A browser that’s pretty interesting is called the Orca Browser. It’s built by the same folks who developed MyIE / Maxathon, but uses the Gecko web browser engine. Naturally, it doesn’t have the extensions available that you find for IE or Firefox, but the sucker is just fast. It bears watching.
I’ve got too much to do to babble any longer. I’m really behind after the events of the last 24 hours. Later this week, I want to talk a bit about what my bosses at Fox are doing – some very interesting stuff developing at FIM, including an IM client built around their acquisition of MySpace.
WEBDORKIAN DESPERATION METRICS
We’re at Defcon 4.
Queue of Emails Needing Attention: 357
Unread RSS Feeds: 7,702
Tasks on To-Do List: 47
Caffeine Saturation: Absolute Zero
Windowblinds shell: No time to play with that stuff
Mood: “Why me, Lord?”
Listening to: Whatever iTunes randomizes to