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Da da dum daaa

A moment of silence please. My motherboard on my ever importance workhorse of a desktop I use for everything Internet personal and business has died. Yesterday the computer spontaneously turned off 8 times. This morning it would not turn on at all. Assuming it was just dust inside, I went to clean the machine this morning and discovered at least 5 capacitors that were leaking and partially exploded. I need this machine working so I may try replacing the bad capacitors but more than likely it is my turn for an upgraded computer. Fortunately, the college student’s "gaming" computer appears available. He won’t be pleased but it will make due for me in this pinch.

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Is hate worth the trouble?

I’ve just been on the phone with Sprint because one of their customers has left a pseudo-threatening/hateful comment on my wife’s blog. They advised immediately filing a police report so that their corporate security department could escalate the issue faster than if I handle it myself. I really don’t like giving hateful people this much attention. It’s best if they just go away. People, the Internet is far from anonymous! In cases like this, you don’t leave a bread crumb trail; you leave a paved boulevard.

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Back in Business

It could be that Firefox kept running my machine out of memory. I’m going to be watching its memory usage closely to make sure on of the many plugins I use doesn’t have a memory leak. Additionally, I have never cleaned out my bookmarks. That means, every url I bookmarked since Firebird version 0.7 I still had. Also my history had every day’s usage remembered back through June. I deleted every bookmark (since those are all duplicated on Delicious anyway. And I cleared my history (which was a little disconcerting because I do go through that history regularly and pull things out that I need). Back to work.

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Firefox Crash Recovery Fails

My workstation is having trouble. I suspect a piece of hardware is dying or a huge dust bunny is wrecking havoc inside the case. It spontaneously reboots a few times a day which is not really a problem because I wouldn’t take breaks otherwise and Firefox always comes back in the same state as before the crash…well, almost always. I don’t help myself because of the way I use the computer. I have many apps open at once and typically will have multiple Firefox windows open with 10 to 20 tabs open in each one. This is how I do research and it is typically work related or blog related. In today’s instance I had 4 windows open. 3 were work related and 1 was filled with information I might one day blog about. These are usually just bookmarked at Delicious for that day I finally get a round to it. Considering my machine was having trouble and I had far too many tabs open, I was just starting to bookmark everything and reduce my windows down to the very few I needed when the computer crashed hard. Upon coming back up, Firefox opened to just a single blank window…no tabs. I needed that work related research! I can reproduce it but this is just frustrating!

So, is there a way to tell Firefox, "restore the previous, previous state?" I think I’m faced with scrolling through the mornings history and pulling up pages one at a time.

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Road Rage Haiku

She cut me off bad
I laid down on the horn mad
We screamed, no net gain

My apologies to the horrible driver I chose to engage. You put us in unnecessary danger. My response did nothing but entertain the line workers at the intersection and upset both of us. Certainly we would have behaved differently had there been children in either car. I am not an asshole as I am sure you are not a bitch. I hope we did not know each other prior to this interaction but perhaps we will meet later on better terms.