Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Switch to Firefox

Adam Kalsey is the first person I’ve seen who does not recommend Firefox as the default browser for the masses. I find this position curious because his point about what things do and don’t work in Firefox are pithy for a pre-release product compared to the benefit offered.

You’ve got to wonder why a regular user would switch to Firefox in the first place, apart from all of his hacker friends telling him it’s the best thing to do. There are only a couple of features that Firefox offers over and above what you get with a plain IE install, and most users wouldn’t make full use them.

SP2 Redeux

With a little more time to set aside (actually, I just wiped everything I was planning to do on the computer off my schedule), I decided to give Windows XP SP2 another try.

After a long, hard struggle in tracking things down and disabling a ton of crap - including pretty much every device on the system to the point that my mouse was inoperable - the system still wouldn’t boot past the blue screen.