Something, I don't know what, in some LJ posts is crashing Mozilla. Old Mozilla, which I still use for LJ and a couple other things, just out of habit. Maybe it's just time to switch over to using Firefox for it, but I wish I knew what was causing the crashes.

I bought a pair of video games today, the first I've bought in months, at least. And I only got these because they were $10 each at Target. I got Longest Journey and Starship Tycoon. And... That's all there really is to say there, I guess ( Read more... )

So, I've been playing FF7 off and on a bit. And in thinking on it, I've come to approve of the limited upgrade stuff for people, there's really no reason I should have to worry about micromanaging armor and weapons and all that crap. Sometimes, detail gets in the way. "Hey, better sword!" works fine ( Read more... )

I can't help but wonder if, all else aside, the reason computers were invented and took off in the "West" first is the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are a lot easier to have a computer display than Arabic or Chinese or Japanese or similar languages.

Well, it's not an outage that kept me offline. It's the spectacular incompetence of Verizon, which I had only heard about before. Yes, I'd love to be able to switch to another company, but there isn't one. There's no competition in DSL, the only ones who can offer it are the local phone companies. They're supposed to let other companies use ( Read more... )

My computer is crippled again. We've had DSL for barely a week, and it went down. Verizion had some kind of outage nearby, that hit us, but it's supposed to be fixed now. Yet the modem sits there, the DSL light glowing forlornly, waiting for its companion Internet light to come on ( Read more... )

"People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests."Now, I remember, back when Napster was around, so like seven years ago, repeated studies say the EXACT SAME THING. Only then it was "downloaders buy more CDs." At the same time as the record industry was raking in record profits. ( Read more... )

I'd think having one of your best defended colonies have all of its defenses destroyed before they could fire a shot would be the kind of thing to put somebody in a negotiating mood, especially when the people who just did it (me) don't invade or anything, and are offering peace if you'll quit being such idiots.

Stupid Sakkra.

My computer is crippled. I have no internet access. Yesterday, the family computer, the one all the internet traffic goes through, died. I think the power supply gave up the ghost, since it shut off, then wouldn't turn back on. Windows, ever vigilant, has ensured that the user experience hasn't changed at all, by crashing Editpad twice while I ( Read more... )