Drunken Whistler

My goal for today was to go and buy a new coat to replace my almost-5 year old leather jacket. And since I’m at this moment realizing there’s no way to make this an interesting story, I’ll just say that I did indeed buy a new coat, a wool driving coat. Very nice, pretty much just what I was looking for.

Going up to the Rose & Crown tonight to meet up with Vic and Liz, Sudeep, Kevin perhaps. No real reason, just have a few drinks, celebrate Vic’s birthday a couple weeks ago. Whatever.

np – Luna / Close Cover Before Striking

Browser Bullshit

Sometimes its best to just leave well enough alone. I’ve been running Mozilla 1.2a for a while now and enjoying it just fine. Then for reasons alien to me, I decide to upgrade to 1.2b. b is more than a, right? And more is always better.

Well bollocks to that. After upgrading, I find I can no longer download anything through the browser. I can right-click on an image and say save, set a target, but no download manager appears, file doesn’t get saved. WTF? I downgrade back to 1.2a, and now Mozilla won’t even start. I get the image of the little fire-breathing dragon guy, but that’s it. There’s some nonsense with the quick-loader in the system tray going on as well, but all-in-all, no browsing joy. I begin to get horrifying visions of having to go back to IE with tail tucked between my legs…

Let’s try Opera again. Well that’s a non-starter. It installs alright (including a massive Java plugin that makes me nervous, I think I have like 3 or 4 Java plugins installed on my machine already) but crashes everytime I try to load chromewaves. Nuts to that, uninstall.

An endless sequence of install 1.2a, uninstall, install 1.2b, uninstall, lather, rinse, repeat (with a few reboots thrown in for good measure) I go back to the source – 1.0.1. Purportedly the most stable version. Well it seems to be running fine now, got my little XUL Planet toolbar installed again, all seems well. And I can download again! I don’t know what the differences between 1.0.1 and 1.2 are supposed to be, but I’ll happily stick with the one that works for now. The build is only a few months old anyway so it’s not like I’m living in the dark ages using Mosaic or anything.

While I was in a browser frenzy, I also grabbed the install download for Netscape 7.0 though after the bullshit of this monrning I don’t know if I’m in any rush to put more crappy software on my system.

Moral of the story? Ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Addendum – Installed Netscape 7.0 after all. It looks and operates exactly like Mozilla. Even ported over all my settings. I haven’t checked if it’s as fully compliant as Mozilla, but at first glance it looks good (excepting all the tacked on AOL nonsense). The next version of IE better kick ass or I see the pendulum swinging back the other way…

np – Matthew Sweet / Altered Beast

Falling

Getting my ass kicked in the hockey pool tonight. Damn you Rishi!

np – The Delgados / Hate

Technical Difficulaties

Thanks to a rogue quotation mark, I have a messed up entry that I can’t get rid of. I’ve already erased a couple of todays posts trying to corner it, but it won’t be beat. I’ll repost the one I managed to save here and hopefully this thing won’t cause anymore problems…

Addendum – looks like that the edit mode in IE works better with Blogger than Mozilla. All fixed now, only one lost post overall.

>> 30 Gallon Tank (originally posted 12:40pm)

Breakfast has turned into lunch. I am all full of Timbits

The massive Columbia House order I placed on behalf of Kyle (with the Velvet Underground box set for me) last week never went through, as I suspected. Online ordering my ass. I re-ordered over the phone, so all should be good.

Speaking of Kyle, he’s gone to pick up the two Elf Power discs and the one Tobin Sprout disc I’d ordered from Beat Goes On. Of course, I have no idea when he’ll be in Toronto next or I’ll be in Oakville.

np – Spoon / A Series Of Sneaks

Girls Can Tell

In case you didn’t believe me about Derek’s life being one comic adventure after another, check out his blog entry for today. I won’t go into specific details, just to say it involves a college co-ed making some extra cash through the internet…

np – Elvis Costello & The Imposters / Cruel Smile