Mozilla Beta

12.08.2004

I've finally gotten the home pc back together and working again. After a month, off and on, of tearing it apart and putting it back together, I think it's at the point of staying together.

My biggest hang-up all stems from my choice of browser. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of years now. When I was reinstalling everything onto the computer, I just naturally downloaded the latest version of Mozilla, in this case version 1.7.3. My problem was that it wouldn't work. At all. It never occurred to me it might be a problem with Mozilla. All the other browsers I had loaded would crash within 10 minutes of opening them up for seemingly no reason, so it had to be a computer problem.

After the grand reinstallation, I once again installed Mozilla, with the same results. Wondering if it was a version problem, I downloaded the beta of the next version (1.8 Alpha, which I guess isn't really a beta). After this installation, everything seemed to work again! I was back in browsing bliss!

So, if anyone is running Windows 2000 Pro with Service Pack 4 and can't get Mozilla to run, try running the 1.8 Alpha.

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Jer always like to pick on my typos. To make it even more difficult spellcheckers won't catch a misspelling if it's still a word, which means I have to look at things really hard before committing them to the internet. Case in point: Alpha and Aloha are only a letter apart, but mean completely different things. I don't think anyone would be able to find Mozilla 1.8 Aloha, unless it's the limited release Hawaiian version.

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What The ...?

12.07.2004

Ok, my updates have been sparse over teh last week and a half. Here's what's going on in the land of Russ:

• Home PC - laying around in different parts as I try to figure out why I can't reinstall Windows.
• X-mas shopping - 90% done!
• Home repairs - Need to get a leaky spot in the roof fixed and see if the heater is really working or not.
• Car - still liking the Explorer. That's liking, not licking.
• Work - Still working.

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No More Flats

11.27.2004

Ok, so I managed to survive my holiday flat tire the only way I know how. I bought a new car.

Thanks to my gradually improving credit rating and dislike for my pick-up, I found out earlier in the week that it was cheaper (well, almost) to buy a new car than to keep what I had. Ever since renting an Explorer on the last Florida trip I had decided that would be the model I would get next, and I had found a used one in Nashville that was the about the right price, right features, right color. Since I had to wait around and get my flat tire fixed, I thought I would visit my local Ford dealership and see if they had anything not shown on their internet site.

I went ready for a barrage of sleazy salespeople. Instead I got the guy from Rex who sold me all of my electronics equipment at a really good deal(s) 4 years ago, Lee. Lee even remembered me ("Hey, I sold you a 53" Sony back at Rex!"). Thanks to Lee, we cut through all the salesman crap and he found me a good deal with some rebates that made it cheaper for me to buy a new car than the used one I had been looking at. So, thanks to a nail in a tire and salesman I seem to be stalking, I am now the proud owner of a 2005 Explorer Eddie Bauer 4X2 - 4.0L SOHC V6.

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Holiday Flat II

11.25.2004

Ah, Thanksgiving. A time for giving thanks for and eating turkey. And for me, a day to change a flat tire since I managed to drive over a nail last night! Wednesday was just not my day.

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The Loons Are Loose

11.24.2004

Usually the world and I get along pretty well. Part of it is that I respect how the world works, and the world in turn respects how I work. Well, the world's schedule got moved around a little Wednesday and it pissed me off!

The silly season begins on Thanksgiving. On that day, everyone begins to act stupid. You can turn left if you saw that the light was green at some point in the past. People walking in front of you will seemingly stop and move over to get in your way. Traffic triples. I'm ok with this. I know when it starts, I know when to expect it. As such, I usually make plans for my last trip of pre-holiday supplies (food, toiletries, and such) on the day before Thanksgiving to then limit the amount of time I have to spend with the stupid.

Except someone let them all out a day early this year.

I made a trip to Target to get some groceries. It seems each woman there had a minimum of 3 children tethered to a buggy. Each woman would manage to find another woman to talk to (along with their 3 tethered children). The 2, or 8, of them would then park buggies and stand in a fashion to somehow take up the whole aisle. And I managed to find this on 3 separate aisles while I was there.

People were everywhere. Walking slow. Getting in my way.

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