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Has Jimmy had the importance of prospects pounded into him since the first day he started to work?

I'm listening to "Rated R" right now and am having a Manos: The Hands of Fate flashback with Track 11 (I think I lost my headache). There are these repetitive saxophones in the background that are eerily reminiscent of the "scary Torgo music" from that movie.

Is that intentional?

Still no miracle email messages about the Easter Challenge. Although, the POP3 server is down at the moment, so maybe there's a late entry waiting in my inbox.

Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to continue hating god and doing no good.

Goddammit, that dang ol' internet fucking rules. I was surfing around looking for Kyuss torrents and came across this eBay auction

On a whim I decided to do a Google Image search on "Sons of Kyuss". Not even 4 minutes after pondering the auction, I was downloading MP3s of the entire album and GIFs of the cover art.

Not even 5 minutes after that I was listening to the album. It is very much like Wretch. In fact, 5 of the 8 tracks appear on Wretch in one form or another. It's nice to have the album, though, for completeness sake, especially considering there are people willing to pay stupid wads of cash for the paper and plastic that came with the music back in 1990.

For the zero subscribers out there, the Premium Diesel list's RSS 2.0 feed is now FireFox Live Bookmark enabled.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+walks+VB+tight+rope/2100-1007_3-5620821.html?tag=nefd.lede

Despite the hue and cry from many in the VB6 crowd, how often does a company support a non-mainframe environment for 7 years nowadays? That doesn't even happen in the open source community.

It's not like compiled VB6 code instantly stops running at the end of the month. The VB RUNTIME dlls are installed by default on Windows XP and 32-bit code will probably still run on Longhorn (whenever it finally comes out). It is also a fact that a number of tasks that are taken for granted in modern applications (like multithreading, web integration, oo design) can't be done or done cleanly in VB6.

I don't see the problem. I am concerned at how often I've become an MS defender in recent days, though. I have to go read up on my Insekt God Prophet propaganda.

Life is a soon-ending struggle against chaos.

The man worthy of remembrance, worthy of immortality, is he who battles each day to surmount the chaos in his psyche, in his surroundings, in his world, knowing that tomorrow he will be again at the bottom.

I once shot a man just to watch him die, but I got distracted and missed it.
All my friends tried to explain it to me, but it just isn't the same.

I am the demon cleaner, madman in encino.
I am the freedom bleeder, standing naked here to say,

I am the only way.

...my pants are too tight.

Well, it finally happened to me, too. I think it was when following a link from furl, but I'm not really sure. When I logged on I started getting messages from MS Anti-Spyware about "ActiveSearch" trying to install itself. The problem was that hitting the Remove button rendered IE unable to pop up any windows at all (no ctrl-N new windows, no Google toolbar search results, no javascript popups that are apparently quite popular on the website Shannon has to logon for work). And, in fact, telling IE to pop up a window would lock it up hard.

So, in the meantime as I sorted out my pernicious VX2 infection, I installed and ran FireFox. I really like the tabbed browsing, which is a lot cleaner and better organized than having a number of IE windows grouped on the taskbar. However, FireFox is ugly and dog-slow. It has the fuzzy, out of focus graphics controls that remind me of running Netscape 4.2 under X-Windows on the Sun workstation at Wright State. It just doesn't look right. Of course, I could probably forgive that sin if it weren't so slow. It is only version 1.0.x.

Of course now I'm faced with a dilemma. After about 4 years of surfing with IE, I finally caught a drive-by download thingy despite having locked down IE fairly tightly (although not as tightly as possible because I wanted to keep it moderately useful without getting 6 confirmation dialogs every time I surfed to a website). So, do I give it up and go with the safer (yet ugly and slow) browser or just continue to take my chances? Being out of commission for 2 days every 4 years seems like a small price to pay.