If the beta becomes the new, permanent interface, and the "classic" view is completely done away with, I will simply delete my account. I urge others who dislike beta to do the same.

1. google maps
2. mapquest
3. yahoo maps
4. maps.com
5. msn maps (mapblast)
6. rand mcnally
7. AAA
8. Cowboy Neal is my guide

Favoite Slashdot Complaint:

• Moderation System
• Mispelings
• Typographical Erorrs
• their/there affect/effect who's/whose
• Duplicate Articles
• Duplicate Articles on the Front Page
• Cowboy Neal/CmdrTaco/Hemos/Zonk

Of Handedness and Mice: What combination applies to you?

• Right handed, mouse config'd for right hand
• Right handed, mouse config'd for left hand
• Left handed, mouse config'd for right hand
• Left handed, mouse config'd for left hand
• More than one of the above
• I don't use a mouse
• I don't have hands you insensitive clod!

I'm blatantly stealing a couple of other's ideas with this, but I'm going to start recording the story and poll submissions I make here. Starting with this:

Poll: Most Egregious Security Breach in Your Environment:

- Users are allowed to use the systems. And the e-mail. And the Internet.

  - Who needs a firewall? Or who needs a firewall that inhibits productivity!

  - What's this "AntiVirus software" you speak of, and why should I care if it's updated?

  - If this password is good enough to be the Vendor's default, then it's good enough for me!

  - Firmware updates? You can do that? On a router?

  - Cowboy Neal plugs all my security holes

So sorry to disappoint (if that is the case), but I don't keep one. I don't consider myself to be a writer in the sense steroetypically attributed to the ubiquitous average blogger. I don't have the need to emote via writing, to read my own words on a daily basis, to record the odd epiphany, or what have you.

I read Slashdot because I want to stay informed, and this is as good a source for that as any, and better than a lot of others available on the 'Net. Being a computer programmer and systems admin, I have an appreciation of the perspective from which information is presented here. I have, on occasion, submitted a story I thought relavent to the Slashdot community. I will occasionally post a comment because I think I have something to add to the discussion. That's all.