I think this situation sums up my computer woes. Major whining within this blog. You’ve been warned.
A few weeks ago I switched over from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Explorer is the default on this computer, even though both options were on here from the get go. So here are the problems:
Blogspot (which I had just signed up to) was a google enterprise that did not like me using a hotmail account to sign into (this was back with explorer). If I did sign in with hotmail it would disable all of my pre-exisiting preferences and favourites, links and bookmarks, and tell me that I need to sign into my google account (aka gmail) to get them back. This was a ridiculously annoying thing to have to put up with, since I’m an internet multitasker, and at this very moment have half a dozen pages running, going through facebook, email, imdb, wikipedia, cnn and blogspot. When I’m done with one I move onto the next, which will soon be metallica, dilbert, and whatever else. And because I couldn’t be fucked doing that, I abandoned blogging for a while. Eventually I had to disable the account I had set up with in blogspot and create one using my gmail account, which I don’t check at all. It was around this time that I began looking at firefox.
But hotmail is still the default on this computer and I haven’t figured out how to change it over. So whenever a new email comes through it means that I now have explorer and firefox working at the same time. Not exactly what I want.
Fucking fucking fucking java. I don’t give a fucking rats-ass about java. Never have. Keep trying to delete the fucker. But it looks as though it’s useful if I want to watch youtube, which I do. I can’t watch it through firefox, because it keeps telling me that I don’t have java installed or enabled, and to please download the newest version. That’s bullshit, because when I go over to explorer it works fine. So now I’m still using explorer and firefox at the same time because something on firefox doesn’t work the way it should and the problem is already fixed on explorer. It also doesn’t work with any imbedded video.
Fucking fucking fucking Ask. As soon as firefox has a brainfart in going to a new page (which is happened a lot this morning), it goes to ask.com. I’ve never understood why a page will do that. “Let’s take you to somewhere you didn’t want to go, onto something that is completely useless.” If google couldn’t handle it, then I have no faith in ask. I have no faith in ask anyway, because it’s now assosciated with total failure. Firefox also seems to not like me using my old habits of having many pages running. My internet speed is going fine right now (which changes on a minute by minute basis), and it fires off ask as often as possible. I’m not changing my habits.
But explorer needs to load up full before allowing me to use those pesky favourites. I have dozens on there, check them almost constantly, and sometimes it has its own temper tantrum and doesn’t do what it should do.
So that’s my situation with computers and upgrades, and trying to change from something that is annoying and doesn’t work, only to find that the new thing is more annoying and still doesn’t work, and I really want to go back to the old ways where I was calmer. I also get near-constant pop-ups for java and all the other programs on here trying to check for updates, which I refuse. I have the patience for two pop-ups at the start of my day, and Vista uses them all up with something called ‘equipo’ (I’m using a Spanish system) and hotmail. I’ve also never used señor equipo, can’t imagine what the point is. Any other pop-up (especially for an update) gets an automatic ‘fuck off’.
And my day was complete when I read this, the lead in news article for imdb:
Paris Hilton always knew she was destined for fame - because her grandmother has likened her to Marilyn Monroe ever since she was a child.
"My grandma would call me Marilyn Monroe or Grace Kelly. Ever since I was little, it's what I knew I wanted to do - be a blonde icon."
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I wonder if it's more Vista than Firefox/IE that's making the trouble. I mean, those are some pretty weird things for them to do. I've been using firefox for years now with no problems, not even after I had to get a new harddrive for my computer and rebuild the thing. The only problem I have - and this irritates the shit out of me but it's been nearly 2 years now so I've learned to deal with it - is that in firefox, I can't use the wheel scroll on my mouse. Nothing happens. If I press it and do some weird travel stuff, i can, but just scrolling down like in Word or Explorer or Excel - nope.
Funny thing is, when I was in NYC in April '07, Jason was using my computer, and somehow, he made the mouse work without even trying. He never knew the thing DIDN'T work. Then, it continued to work for about a week after I got back, realized I was on the computer again, and quit completely. The fucker.
I don't think I've ever heard you swear before. It was just as surprising as if Paris Hilton could work out the square root of pi!
Really? I don't do it that often, because I use a wide variety of words, but they do come out sometimes, especially when I'm not around children.
I mean, I told you the story about Morrigan and George W. Bush, right? Morrigan was just learning to talk, about 18 months old, in 2002, when we were about to go to war with Iraq. I think jason had just told me that we were declaring war, and I went off on a rrant about Mr. Bush, which ended with "the stupid fuck!" From the backseat of the car came a little 18-month old voice: "sdupid fuck. sdupid fuck." yeah.
Ironically, my word verification is "sayiness." Not that sayiness is really a word, but it sounds like an off the wall synonym for wordiness, right?
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