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Well then... It would appear that I'm still here. Oh well. Time to retire the ol' Slashdot journal. If you all want to keep up on me, you can find me Here (pops, and beware of pop-ups, unless you're a good person and use Firefox). That's about it.

I'm taking a year off to sort out some stuff.

As I can, I might post comments here at /., but I doubt it'll be much more than just keeping my account alive.

Hopefully, all will go as well as can be expected, and I'll be back in January of 2006 with a new outlook on things, a new base of operations, and a new lease on life.

To all Slashdotters: You guys are one of the two most interesting Net communities I've been a part of (the other being Fark), and have provided me with insight and amusment beyond count. Flame wars, intelligent discussion, politics, and one of the broadest cross-sections of geekdom I've ever found. You are as diverse under the banner of Nerd as we all are under the banner of Humanity. Thanks for the last four years, you guys and gals.

gmhowell: At a time when even the smallest bit of support counted, you showed up with the goods. I wish you good luck in all you do, George, and thanks for doing something as trivial as reading and commenting on this journal. It means the world to me that someone on a site as big as this would pay attention to the drivel I tend to spew. You rock, man.

Derreck: What can I say, man. This will be my Nerd Legacy for the next year, if it even counts for much of one at all. Here's to boozing it up late nights in Hawk Run, making Linux go, and pointing me in this direction in general. You rock, man.

Believe it or not, I'm actually gonna miss this Asylum...

The end of one adventure is just the doorway to the next one. So don't say goodbye, just say Good Journey. Because the Journey doesn't end here... -- Yeah, I paraphrased Masters of the Universe. Dork alert...

Not a good thing for a Firefighter to type in for an entry title, is it?

But seriously. After getting a good reccomendation, today I stumbled in to the Mozilla FireFox universe, and already I think I'm in love.

For the last two years, I've preached the joys of Opera. Well, I think I'm done with it. No more plain old Mozilla, no more Konquerer, no more Nautilus, and MOST CERTAINLY NO MORE IE.

From the word go, it was a breeze. Installation handled itself. No worrying about dependancies, getting the right RPM package, nothing like that. It set itself up, imported my Mozilla settings, and plopped me on my home page (currently Fark). Immediately it noticed that Fark was running a Flash advertisment, and kindly asked me if I wanted to go get the plug-in.

I've tried to get the plug-in working on my own before, but to no avail. Sucks, really, because I've been having so many successes in the Linux world as of late (mostly out of necessity). But FireFox, it happily sucked down the plug-in, installed it, and reloaded the page. ROCK!

Themes and Extension managment is easy as hell, too. I've downloaded the IE viewer extension, and so far, every "Designed for IE" page has loaded up like a charm. I like the Walnut theme as well. Nice, easy on the eyes, and fits in with my choses desktop images (5 desktops, images from Digital Blasphemy) really well. I like the woodsy images found on DB, and the walnut blends right in.

Bookmark managment was a little funky for me to get used to in the first minute or two, but it's now as simple as dragging the favorites icon from the addy bar over to my bookmark toolbar, renaming it, reloading it, and riding off into the sunset.

As I'm writing this, I haven't even scratched the surface as to the features this thing has. Haven't started to use the tabs yet. Pop-up blocking is pretty much automatic from the first time you run it, and alerts you if you want to make customizations on the fly, so I'm not too worried about trying to break it. Password managers aren't really my thing, so bollocks to it.

You know, I just realized that I'm sounding more and more like my boss, who's a Welshman from the UK. "Bollocks to it," "Bob's your Uncle, Fannie's your Aunt," "in the loo," "take the lorry..." I've assimilated so many British mannerisms thanks to him...

But anyway, if you're running Linux, I think you'll like FireFox. If you're running Windows, JUMK IT, run Linux, and get FireFox. Or just get FireFox for Windows if that's easier for you...

Yep, been a while since I wrote anything. News since my last post:

Jill is no more. She's a stupid, selfish and naive girl, and is no longer worth my time.

I'm talking to Liza again, which is good.

I've purchased and read both Dancing Barefoot and Just A Geek by our own Wil Wheaton. Drooling fan-boy thoughts aside, these are excellent books with heartfelt, funny, and sometimes sad stories from Wil's life and career. I HIGHLY reccomend that you all pick them up and read them, several times over.

Work has seriously picked up. Doing the theatre thing as well as DJing at my favorite bar three nights a week. Not a bad gig, really. I get paid to watch movies and drink beer. Excellent!

Forced to run Linux due to computer issues, but it's turned out pretty good so far! Mandrake 9.2 is pretty OK for what I want it to do. The only thing is reconfiguring the sound module, which I really don't have time for right now. Oh well, I'll probably just upgrade to MDK 10 and let Aurora handle it...

That's about it for now, I'll update again later on this weekend. It's good to be back, though. For sure!

You're all gonna hate me, but...

Yep. It's back.

Jill's single, and this time, I'm in the right place at the right time...