<umu> I LEAVE THE TASK OF POSTING IT TO YOU, too busy "punishing the prisoner"

Words to Live By

When all is said and told, the "naturalness" with which we use our native tongues boils down to the ease with which we can use them for making statements the nonsense of which is not obvious.

—Edsger Dijkstra

I am uninstalling Google Chrome for now, but I may try it again in the future

Please provide any additional detail on your reason for uninstalling:

Chrome has recently decided to close immediately whenever I try to open it. I click the Chrome icon in my Start menu, the Chrome window sort of flickers into existence for a split-second before disappearing. This is the second time it's behaved like this; last time I solved the problem by uninstalling and reinstalling again, but I'm sick of dealing with it.

Furthermore, I've found that Chrome has serious trouble with a lot of sites. In particular, MSDN developer help pages (which I find myself using a lot these days) tend to have all their text shoved into a unreadably tiny column on the left side of the window. It also seems to have trouble with redirects; some sites I visit will redirect perfectly normally with every other browser I've used (IE, Firefox, Safari), but Chrome will inform me that the site doesn't exist (or something like that, I've forgotten exactly).

I really liked the home page with easy-to-click buttons for the places I visit most often, and the search box that magically appeared there after I'd used wordreference.com a few times was pretty cool, too. However, as far as actually browsing the web goes, Chrome seems to offer no advantages over Firefox, and for the most part is vastly inferior. I may try Chrome again in a year or so if I hear you guys have ironed out the kinks, but I'm pretty fed up with it at the moment.

Mood-Music II

Music: Awesome Colour --> Pink Mountaintops -->Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Mood: Good.
I have to be in /just/ the right mood for BMRC. Awesome Colour and Pink Mountaintops were great preperation. It's like getting your heart rate up before working out. I've done my stretches, so I can get into BMRC, otherwise I can't do it. I think in "album" terms, BMRC might be the best, even if I don't like it the most. I've never listened to Axis of Evol before--it's good, but it deserves a few more listens before I make any claims on it. Awesome Color is much better than the Pitchfork review would lead you to believe, even if it is, like, one song played eight times (but the eighth time is the best, it makes you want to start the album over again). I want to start a band, and call it "Awesome Colour", 'cause, y'know, we'd be /Canadian/... Baby 81 was one of the few releases that we were allowed to listen to at the record store that I /didn't/ despise, and for that, it holds a special place in my heart.