Not a bad idea, but be prepared for:

1. What are the steps to reproduce the problem?
   a. "I clicked on the Internet"
   b. "The thingy didn't work"

Using NotScript? NoScript is nicer, but NotScript does mostly the same thing.

I think the best way to learn Blender is to follow along with one of the thousands of free video tutorials found on Vimeo, YouTube, or some of my favorites:

• Blender Cookie
• The Blender 3D Course
• Blender Artists has a bunch of tutorials posted in their forums

Have fun!

As opposed to the teenage dipshits who are attacked by glittery "plugins" for their MySpace page. Most people are completely clueless about how they get attacked - It's got nothing to do with age at all.

Don't forget the "First Post!"

I can believe it just fine. I just opened a 3 page paper I'm working on, and my citations moved around on me between saving the document on Tuesday and opening it today - all on the same machine. Somehow, the kerning grew in the intervening time. It was noticeable because it shunted a word down to the second line, and MLA requires the second line of a citation to be indented. I'd have been dinged a few points for that if I hadn't checked before turning in the paper.

Seriously. By frivolously calling because your water tastes bad, you're potentially drawing rescue personnel away from a real rescue. Somebody could _die_ either rescuing your sorry ass, or somebody in a real emergency could die because the rescue crews were dealing with you. Maybe a few days in jail would help you think about it.

Yep, it definitely results in a satisfying explosion. I can't remember whether or not it makes for a less or more painful mosquito bite.

Flying into Islamabad, Pakistan, the flight attendant announced that it was illegal to take aerial photos. Sad to hear this nonsense is coming to a country that should know better.

I'm sure Edison was still busy inventing past 40.

I can't tell if you're using hyperbole, made a mistake, or just don't know what a megabyte is. I seriously doubt you have 100 gigabytes of RAM on your system.

You're not in school either. I'm stuck with a bunch of online courses that require the use of Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Blackboard mostly works under Firefox and IE8, but not completely. MyItLab absolutely requires IE7.

I'm by no means a Photoshop power user, but I can get around in it and use it just fine. Personally, I'm much more comfortable in GIMP's UI setup at the moment.

For example, the single window paradigm doesn't take advantage of Compiz's present windows feature. With my current KDE setup, I mouse to the lower right corner of the screen and it lays out all the windows in the workspace. Click on one, and off you go. With Photoshop, You have to sift through the windows manually.

Honestly, I'm thinking it's just what you're used to using that makes you like one or the other, and it looks like GIMP will be giving us a choice between single and multi window in the near future. The single window mockups look rather good, and more usable than Photoshop in my opinion.

Honestly, I think what GIMP really needs is 16 bits/channel image support (WTF guys?), adjustment layers, etc. That's what still keeps me opening up Photoshop, not the UI.

Actually, that's officially being worked on right now.

Personally, I like the multi-window layout, but I'll certainly give the single-window UI a shot.

One thing you should consider is that OpenOffice, while supporting Word documents, doesn't support annotations to Word documents. My wife ran into this at her school. The prof wants her to turn in her assignments in MS-Word format, and then add annotations to parts of the document. When she gets the assignment back, she can't read the annotations. She's perfectly happy using Linux whenever she can, but in this case, Windows was required. (Yeah, I know about Crossover Office, but the license fee isn't worth it when you can simply install XP for a few dollars more.)