$83. In five days. After she acknowledged that the card was cancelled. Well, it's off now, and I'll have a new card in 8-21 business days ( Read more... )

So a week or two back I posted about my sister abusing my credit card. Despite saying I'd do it, I didn't actually shut the card off. Figured I'd see what she did, and leave it in reserve. Also, save me the trouble of getting a new one ( Read more... )

So back in 2003 or 2004, I had the choice between buying a 40GB iPod for $400 with the feature that the user could not change the battery (giving it an effective life of 18 months) or buying a 40GB MP3 player made by Creative (makers of the best-known sound cards around) for $250 with the feature of a user-changeable battery ( Read more... )

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On the suggestion of the lady who runs the MWR internet cafe night shift (suggestion made several weeks ago), I just listened to Luka, by Suzanne Vega. Three words in and I realized people have been quoting the lyrics to this song to me for years ( Read more... )

In addition to previous problems with FireFox, it is worth noting that DeviantArt is also made of fail. I don't know how or why, but for some reason, it often causes FireFox to cough up bolts and drag like an old man with no legs between trenches in 1917 France ( Read more... )

So I got a mild bout of food poisoning yesterday, or at least I'm pretty sure it was food poisoning. Long story short, I ate a breakfast bar at 4 am, took my doxycyline pill, went to bed, got up at 10 am, and threw it all up at 11 am. So it coulda been a bad reaction with the doxycyline ( Read more... )

Firefox keeps locking up on me. I mean, a serious, repeating memory leak. Eats gigs of memory with only a few tabs open.


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Anyone else having problems with Yahoo! today ( Read more... )

I use Firefox preferentially. Here in Afghanistan, the computers have IE and Firefox, so of course I use Firefox. Sometimes I have problems with it freezing up with a dozen or so tabs open. Usually I close and reopen. Today was different.

I had Firefox open with five tabs up:
Yahoo! Mail
My webcomics tracking page
Least I Could Do
Drow Tales
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