Woman Allegedly Tries to Buy Pot From Cops

WTF... if this is real, there is something MAJORLY wrong with the world. How freaking moronically stupid can you be!?

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Honestly, Opera... WTF

Okay, I have tried Opera many times in the past... given it so many chances to replace my browsing experience... but it has never stuck. The main reason being, is that no matter what I do, certain pages I go to will NOT work with it. My blog here for example... in Opera, the new technology preview, my flickr badge on the right hand side will not work. It is a simple flash app, and works in Firefox, and IE... but not Opera. That is a small misgiving, but quite a few other pages that I visit have problems with it too... either they display incorrectly, or they give me a message that says "Use a standard browser like Mozilla or IE." I have even tried making Opera identify itself as IE or Mozilla, but still no go. Now honestly, all I want is a browser that can truly replace IE. Firefox comes VERY close, being that it has extensions that allow IE pages to be viewed directly in Firefox if it can't display it correctly. Opera has so many cool features that I like, the full page zoom ability, and the fit to screen width ability, among others... but no matter what I do, there are always pages that can't display correctly inside it, so I have to fall back on Firefox. Why, Opera, why can't you just freaking work!?

The Joy of Free

Okay, I re-found some things I should have been using for a long while.  The first of which is a nice image manipulation program, The Gimp.  I haven’t messed with it much, but Ian always raved about it, and I think in time I will grow to love it.  I don’t know how much more powerful Photoshop is, but I don’t know if it would ever be worth the price they ask for it.  The Gimp seems to be pretty powerful, so I can do some basics at first, and maybe be all spiffy and eventually learn to create interesting things and make my blog look truly my own.

The second program(s) would be OpenOffice.  I have had versions of Microsoft Office on my computer for most of my life since college began… and I always hated how I had to have “student” editions or something, because the “real” Office cost 600 bucks or something.  OpenOffice seems to be really nice, and it has (from what I can tell) most of the features that Microsoft Office has.  It has it’s own versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, among others.  One cool thing I noticed, is most of the programs in OOo have the ability to export files to PDF so you can have perfect renditions of your documents.  Quite neat, imo.

The point of this post would simply be, if you are looking for nice alternatives to the insanely expensive programs out there, and are not Ian (who already knew of them long ago), then try out these free ones.  It is amazing what open source can do.  ^_^

Dark Tower Comics

Apparently Stephen King will be working with Marvel to produce a comic based on his Dark Tower series of books.  For those of you that don’t know what it is, Kade got me into them awhile back, and they are a GREAT series of books.  I am on the last one right now, and have enjoyed them all the way through… except for Wolves of the Calla… it was boring in parts.  Anyway, take a look at the link for more info and some artwork from it.

Stephen King and Marvel Join Forces

BTW, in response for Kade getting me to try the Dark Tower series, I got him to read Harry Potter, and he now knows how awesome THEY are… so it was a fair trade off.  ^_^