Samuel's Blog

-into-most-disk-access-and-other-system-functions-bloatware-browser is better than Firefox. Internet Explorer integrates with Windows Explorer far too much, which is half the reason why it has so many flaws (it is also badly written, but that's another story for another day). Firefox doesn't integrate with Windows Explorer, and doesn't suffer the same problems, I'm not saying it doesn't have some problems, and I'm not saying it doesn't have compatibility issues with some websites, but in general it is the better browser. I'm sure somebody is going to point out the obvious similarity in Linux, KDE and Konqueror, so let me say this: Yes, Konqueror is the explorer type app in KDE, however it is a poor excuse for a web browser, and I avoid it with as many teeth as possible...I use firefox on Linux, and I'm not a fan of KDE...I much prefer GNOME.

I had a bit of a break from idiots, I spent two hours in the library (good thing I was working, that way I didn't have to attend an assembly filled with idiots playing loud "music" and apparently "dancing"), then I had a class, and went into Civic to await a friend's arrival. This waiting period proved interesting:
To start with, more people blocking my walking path for no good reason...it just so happens that I walk faster than most people, and stepping out in front of me is very annoying, but it doesn't stop most people from doing it anyway.
I went to sit down on a seat to wait for the person's arrival, but just before I could sit down, somebody jumped in the way and sat down instead, so I sat on a different seat. Incidentally, this "somebody" was only seated for 30 seconds...hardly seems worth the bother does it?
While I was sitting down, two people walked past and nearly sat on me....the day keeps getting better doesn't it?

The person I was waiting for arrived on time, and I got on the bus with them, naturally, somebody had taken my favourite seat 20 seconds before me, so I sat down elsewhere and moved onto my favourite seat when it was vacated.

On the way back was no better, firstly I was treated as a bag rest by someone...they just plonked their bag right on top of me!! At an interchange, an old woman got on with a trolley overflowing with plastic bags...the bus was already crowded without that...and it seemed quite awkward for her to manoeuvre it...her trying to get off the bus with it was worse though. The other amazingly dumb idiot was just nuts. They had headphones, but they were wearing them around their neck, not on their ears, the headphones were also blaring...making it impossible to hear the driver's radio, which is a pity because I missed some good bits, I think the driver had difficulty hearing the radio over these headphones at time as well.

After getting off the bus, I sat down and got out my thermos, poured my coffee into my linux.conf.au mug, and had my coffee. This was, however, interrupted by another idiot, this one happened to be from my college, and they recognised me, so they came over and started asking me strange questions. "How old are you?" "What year are you in?" "What year were you in during 1990?" etc...this lasted about two minutes, after which they just walked off. Why did I put up with this? Quite simply because I know that they are less mentally capable than most, and have a habit of doing this.

That was Friday the 13th.

Samuel