Although I do agree that google seems to be on a descending path, the alternatives don't have an index as comprehensive. So, until then, you either accept sub-optimal results or you have to use google.

I have noticed a disproportionate number of intellectuals are depressed.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (King James Version)

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Do you smoke? Smoke has a tendency to shorten CD/DVD-ROM drives lifetime / make them fail.

Thanks for the suggestion but a cursory check on 1&1 triggered my alarm bells... too many upsells, it's not clear what you'll pay after the first year and there are some warnings against it on webhostingtalk.com

Are there some honest and reliable domain name registrars out there? I'd like to register a domain, but I'm not sure where.

They'll always tax everything they can. Or, do you think that if a renewable energy starts getting a dominant position it won't be heavily taxed?

My favourite is still:

Branch on Bug

The Bible: Those who believe shall be able to do miracles, such as drink poison and not get hurt, or heal the sick (Mark 15:17). So if you follow Christ and you can't do those things, then......yeah, you've just falsified it.

The most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20. (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2016&version=NIV)

Why not:

John 13:35 (New International Version)

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

BTW, I wasn't trying to be funny. From http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/privacy_browsing.html

And stop using firefox too

I thought it meant Escape Meta Alt Control Shift :)

The excessive brightness is only a small part of the problem. While in theory the picture in a LCD displays should be clearer and steadier than that of a CRT, in practice various problems (such as FRC - Frame rate control to make a 6 bit display look like it has more colors), backlight flicker, the backlight itself (in practice you are staring at a fluorescent light) end up making most LCD displays harder on your eyes than a CRT. If someone knows of a specific LCD or another PC display technology that doesn't have this problems please post about it.

That's what I'm thinking about right now. I've gone from Debian Testing to Fedora Core 4 to 8, Ubuntu, and now I intend to go back to Debian Testing and close the circle!

A few years ago I also worked with VB5. I made a custom control created with VB5 (that made an OCX) and a regular application that used that control. Once, I started to get weird errors, and I traced it to one or two functions that would get bogus data as their parameters. Had to revert turn off the compiler and use the byte-code interpreter to "fix" that. The control I created had once a form (I think, it's been a while) that became obsolete. However when I deleted it stuff would stop working, so I just left it there... No to mention that VB5 would leak memory if you were not careful with dynamic stuff and some other annoyances. On the other hand VB is a fairly powerful language and a very productive one.

      On bug reporting, I once found myself in dll hell, because we only shipped a full distribution once, and would then automatically update only the .exe (which is unsupported). The two (paid) support calls were useless, as they gave only basic advice. I would latter find out that IT had automatically upgraded some software, which in turn changed some .dlls on my dev pc, which broke the dependencies for mostly everyone else.