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9月18日

Obo Plays The Drums

Obo has sent me a lot of abstract pictures made in Photo Shop recently.
This one looked so much like a drum kit, I couldn't resist adding a little
detail of my own.
 

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SHIFT & Click the pic for the full version in a new window..

I must animate this!

Edit: Click the thumb below for Obo's elegant return.

15 - 30: Wardy to serve then?

9月3日

Trying out the Firefox browser


Get Firefox!

I've had a couple of viruses recently, a Trojan and a 'sploit, despite being meticulous about security updates
anti-virus, firewall, and using the usual anti-spyware programs, Ad-Aware and Spybot - Search and Destroy.

I'm typing this blog using Firefox now and I have to say I'm pretty impressed!
It tells you a lot more about the web pages you're looking at than Internut Exploder which has been crashing
on me for a couple of weeks now.
I can see now why IE kept crashing everytime I tried to view Jolie Mae's space and why these spaces are so
slow to load...
Man, these spaces are pulling in data from 1001 different sources and use loads of scripts.
I like how Firefox tells you when a script has stopped running, which they often do here on Spaces, and gives
you the option to terminate it. It's a better option than an IE crash dude!

As I recall, Firefox was deeply trendy in some circles a year or so ago, so to some people this will be nothing
new, and others will have no idea what I'm banging on about!
Funnily enough, yesterday, Bob mentioned it in the comments to the blog below, AND I struck up a conversation
with a shop assistant in ASDA who has a degree in computer science, (go figure ;-) and when I told him about my
problems he said, "I use Firefox because it's not Microsoft coding so it gets ignored by viruses".
Makes a lot of sense I reckon.

A couple of downsides:
1 - BG Sound* doesn't work in Firefox. (You're quite right Bob!)
* the html code in the blog below that plays background music
2 - Spybot Search and Destroy doesn't seem to like it, but if Firefox is as good as I hope it is, I won't need
Spybot anymore :)

All in all, so far so good.
I'd recommend it! It's free, it's under 5MB to download and it's amazingly quick and easy to install.
Degree in Computer Science definitely NOT REQUIRED!!!