It was the night of great advances in computing happiness!

First off, got the new non-Beta Firefox 1.0. Why bother with a new browser, when you're all nice and used to the last one which wasn't yucky super-buggy no-tabs IE, you ask? Well, I wish I had a bunch of wonderful technical reasons or I could go on about Open Source (which I do think is cool), but really there were two main things that Safari just wasn't doing for me: 1. WYSIWYG editor in blogspot didn't really work, 2. (and this is the big one) you couldn't ctrl-t to open a new tab, you had to ctrl click on a link - which is dumb, because then you have to wait for that page to load when all you really wanted was a google search or something like that. So, now I can ctrl-t to my heart's content :).

Also, they've got this nifty feature called "dynamic bookmarks," you give a bookmark a keyword, which you can then just type into the address bar. This also works with searches, you type in the search keyword you've assigned, and then your search terms. Well, a Google dynamic search came pre-installed, so I gave it a spin. So I wander up to my address bar, type in Google, and then the most random search term I can come up with.... knickers (which, as an American, isn't a word that I use often... well, actually I think this is probably the first time ever). And rather than the Google search results page I was expecting, I ended up here! Imagine my surprise...

And then, as if I hadn't had enough fun already, I found out that my number one big sad unhappy thing about Apple isn't true! The only thing I've been upset with them for, is that since I didn't have OS 9 (the old version, I'm running OS 10.3 now), I couldn't use many old programs that were written for "Classic Mac" (as opposed to OS X) - like Myst! Whenever people warned me that I wouldn't be able to use any cool programs anymore if I got a Mac, I just laughed them off, because I knew that the only game I really like playing said "For PC and Mac" on the case. But then I go to try it, and it demands this classic version - which I didn't have. So, I finally managed to find out where I could order it from, but they were going to charge me $20 shipping and handling just to be able to run old programs!! Well, as it turns out, they actually sent me OS 9 along with my computer, it was just on a seperate disk labelled "Additional Software." I can't believe I hadn't checked out this disk yet, I mean, it's not like they gave me hundreds of them, there were only two... But anyways, so I popped it in, clicked "Install" waited for about a minute and a half, and presto chango - I now have two operating systems, didn't even have to reboot! So of course I had to make sure it worked, so I tested it with Riven (Myst II) for an hour, or two... And now, I'm going to sleep to dream happy computer dreams. Good night!