Truly an excellent design, full of useful and helpful things to make using the site easier, and value-added. Bravo.

I am shocked, and frankly appalled that anyone would have their home searched and things confiscated over a story reported in the news.

Interesting points yet oddly enough its not just teenagers who seem to do too much.  For instance, as I was writing this blog, I read a few comments on digg, ran a web search for something that wasn’t even related to the article, downloaded a new copy of Trillian, added a new extension to Firefox, and started Party Shuffle on iTunes, not to mention talk with my 5 year old.  

I think that the increasing availability of computers and the Internet, not to mention the increase in TV, movie and music choices is causing a corresponding rise in ADD-like behaviors/multitasking.  Then again I have ADD myself, so perhaps I’m merely filtering my observations through the ADD filter.  

• Control Journal
  • Routines-Morning, Afternoon, Late Afternoon, Evening, Before Bed and Weekly
  • Menus and Master Pantry, Household and Grocery Shopping Lists
  • Household Information: Passwords/User Names, Insurance Information, Phone List, Medical Information and Doctor's numbers.
• EssentialPIM Pro-calendar, to-dos, basic notes and contacts-in the middle of adding family address information to EPIM
• Evernote-notes, quotes, clippings, recipes from the 'Net
• GMail
• FireFox with 43 Extensions/6 Themes
  • Adblock 0.5.3.042
  • Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4
  • Always Remember Password 0.4
  • BBCode 0.4.1.3
  • Blogger Web Comments 1.3
  • Bookmark Backup 0.4.1
  • Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.5.0
  • Bookmarks LinkChecker 0.6.8.2
  • BugMeNot 1.3
  • Colorful Tabs 1.4
  • Context Search 0.2.1
  • Copy Plain Text 0.3.2
  • CustomizeGoogle 0.49
  • CuteMenus 2 1.0
  • del.icio.us 1.1
  • Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0.1
  • DOM Inspector 1.8.0.4
  • Download Manager Tweak 0.7.1
  • DownThemAll! 0.9.9.5.1
  • EverNote Web Clipper 1.0.0.42
  • Fasterfox 1.0.3
  • File Title 1.1
  • Forecastfox 0.9.2
  • FoxyTunes 1.2.5
  • Google Notebook 1.0.0.5
  • Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0.20060606W
  • Greasemonkey 0.6.4
  • IE View 1.2.7
  • Image Toolbar 0.6.3
  • Linky 2.7.1
  • LiveLines 0.4.5
  • MediaPlayerConnectivity 0.6.3
  • MR Tech Local Install 5.0.4
  • Performancing 1.2
  • Sage 1.3.6
  • ScrapBook 1.0.6
  • SecurePassword Generator 0.5.3
  • Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.9
  • Talkback 1.5.0.4
  • TimeTracker 1.1.2
  • undoclosetab 20051204
  • UnPlug 1.3.1
  • WebmailCompose 0.6.6
  • Abstract PC 1.0
  • AquaFox 1.1.01
  • Aquatint 1.6.6
  • BlackJapan 1.15
  • Firefox (default)
  • iCandy Junior 2.0.5
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 7
  • Microsoft® DRM
  • Mozilla Default Plug-in
  • QuickTime Plug-in 7.1
  • RealPlayer Version Plugin
  • RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)
  • Shockwave Flash
  • VLC multimedia plugin
  • Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library
• Del.icio.us/Furl/Simpy for bookmarking and saving copies
• Bloglines-in the middle of cleaning up feeds and will mirror Omea
• Omea Reader-RSS/Bookmarks/Usenet-very handy especially with a WordPress blog posting plugin-it was very slow on my computer and took FOREVER to close-now using Sage and Performancing.
• iTunes-Music
• Picasa-Photo Organizing and basic editing
• Media Player Classic-plays pretty much any video/music format when installed with K-Lite Codec Pack
• VLC Client-catches whatever MPC doesn't play
• Trillian Basic 3-IM-pretty much all my services except AIM which I haven't used since 2000
• Money 2006 Deluxe-right now using a trial version, will pick up full version soon

I’ve started back into using Omea Reader for RSS/Usenet since I’m using Gmail’s web interface for my mail. I liked Thunderbird but got tired of the huge archive I was keeping so Copernic could index my emails. I’ve switched back to Google Desktop 4 for desktop search since I don’t have to have a archive on the HD which is not fun backing up.

All in all it was one of the easiest clean installs of XP I’ve done, since I had the files I wanted to move handy on another HD and I wasn’t concerned about settings (well except FireFox since I have passwords saved).

Idjits. Hollywood, the MPAA, ATI and nVidia, not to mention Sony and Microsoft are all just a big bunch of money grubbing IDIOTS who seem to think making it *harder* to even WATCH what people f'ing buy will cut down piracy.
Bullfuckingshit.
They have farted around about HDTV, DRM and copyright and they who THINK they are the powers that be are merely bringing on a lovely little fight between people who want to watch or listen to what they buy *LEGALLY* and those who think that there are pirates around every corner. No they are in bed with those who give a nod and wink to piracy in China and other places and punishing the legal buyers of their products be it software, DVDs, games or music.
I for one, would be very pissed about not being able to watch a DVD on my snazzy new HDTV (not like I could afford one for a few YEARS) or hell play a game on my new PS3 (altough I'm seriously reconsidering that in light of my little run-in with MediaMAX courtesy of Sony/BMG) that I bought and paid for.
Of course the article has the disturbing news that the GPU manufacturers-ATI/nVidia- have been *advertising* a feature that the retail versions don't have but OEM versions that can only be in new computers, which is a bait and switch in my opinion.