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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

i'm home
June 01, 2004 - 12:28 pm

important international air travel tip: if miss your flight cause of, let's say, weather or a connecting flight is late, you get a free hotel room - at least on united. good stuff.

see, my flight on sunday was canceled due to bad, bad weather. i knew flying through chicago twice in one trip was tempting fate too much. I know it's not a cursed airport or anything and tons of people fly through it daily.. and if things had gone smoothly, i'd have nothing to say about it at all. my point is just that it is huge and therefore has more chances for things to go wrong. it's in a bad spot weather wise, at least in my opinion.

see, i'm all about medium sized airports - like san fran, which we came into from korea. 13 people went through all customs and security checks in under 40 minutes. three of us got randomly picked for indepth bag checks and it still only took a total of 40 minutes.

in chicago or atlanta or whatever other major airport, you could easily get stuck in a massive line.

of course, really small airports have the reverse problem, with too little in the way of resources it's too easy for them to get overwhelmed if several flights happen to be clogging the system at once.

grr. my brother is mac user and i'm quite confused as to why anyone likes this osx shit to windows xp. yes, i know mac's rock at graphics. i don't care about that. yes, i know historically mac's have been more stable - that argument dies with xp.

i want multiple mouse buttons.

netscape hung on this piece of shit and, as far as i can tell, there's no easy way to kill it.

i hate the big ass icons on the bottom of the screen, they take up too much space.

safari isn't the shit like i've been led to believe. opera is faster than it. both my brother and i use cable modems, so speed is as apples to apples as you're going to get. i also hate how it handles multiple windows - perhaps it's just how my brother has it set up. i'm a tabbed browser kinda guy. having to either minimize this window or go up to the window button is bullshit. alt tab doesn't work to cycle through either.

where's the ease of use?

at least next time i hear someone pontificating about safari or osx, i can tell them to get off the high horse - undoubtedly, each os and browser has strengths and weaknesses and tis a fool who doesn't see that.

for me, opera is the bee's knees and window xp works just dandy.

anyway, i didn't mean to go off on that tangent, just trying to multitask and getting annoyed.

time for me to go buh-byes.