Your One Stop Keyur Shop!

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I’m home. I can’t say enough about that. As I’ve told many of you, I was never designed for Texas, its just not the kind of place where Keyurs can stay for too long. I’m home though and for now thats all that matters.

The drive from Charlotte to Jersey was thankfully uneventful save for mummy forgetting her purse at my uncle’s house in Raleigh and the relentlessly thick traffic outside of DC that I cut through like angry soap cuts through leftover grease. I also realized that the engine on a 2002 Ford Windstar is far superior to that in a 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan. It should be noted though that neither vehicle will respond to repeated verbal requests for “Turbo Boost” or “Super Pursuit Mode”. The Windstar does have a ceiling mounted video screen on which Devin Miles never appeared, I’m assuming he was busy handling the Foundation’s other important matters. Lastly the drive from Charlotte to Jersey was accomplished entirely under the confinement of pants. The parental unit doesn’t fully appreciate the joy of long pantless drives.

In other news MS paid AOL TW $750 million and speculation on the death of Netscape and thus the death of Mozilla. I don’t have the figures, but I don’t think AOL TW are going to throw away or let languish what is a lucrative investment that they’ve nurtured for the past five years. Mozilla is now the open source browser base on the net. Furthermore MS and AOL TW are not allies regardless of what any press release says and AOL TW is not going to make itself solely dependent on their largest rival’s flagship internet platform. The thought of the two companies integrating their IM solutions is highly intriguing, but I’m just steeling myself for the day when IMing becomes a pay-to-play service.

Also since Firebird 0.6 was released many have been heralding it as if it were the anti-pants revolution itself. People get over yourselves, its not that great. Yes its definitely beating a path in the right direction of doing more with less, but it still hasn’t reached Mozilla’s level of UI functionality. I don’t condone Mozilla’s UI incompetency but at the same time I don’t appreciate Firebird’s half baked attempt at UI competency either. Mozilla does a lot of thing half right, whereas Firebird does a few things half right. My biggest gripes with Firebird are the lack of profile management, no improvement over Mozilla on plugin hell, defaults that are unclear and still no installer. Using Firebird leaves you feeling like you’re using incomplete work and in fact thats what it is so I’m going to shutup and give them time to hit atleast 0.8 before I really start scrutinizing, until them I’m happyily sticking to my Mozilla 1.4b nightlies.

Lastly this update is being posted entirely via a dial-up connection. It is very very painful. I have been using broadband exclusively for the past 5 years save the Christmas breaks and now to stoop to this is just raw pain. Thankfully on Monday I’ll be getting plugged in via Optimum Online which thankfully services my area unlike Verizon DSL. Optimum Online is faster than the TW RoadRunner I was using which is super sweet. With a modem your online activity becomes totally one dimensioanl, you can only do one thing at a time and even that very slowly. Having used tabbed browsing for quite a while as well makes the lack of broadband even more painful. I cannot wait to get my machine back online and with it the One Stop Keyur Music Shop!, more updates to photos.keyurp.com and other exciting adventures.

Lastly as great as it is to be home its really super annoying to have to again get used to mummy checking up on me if I’m quiet for more than five minutes. Some habits die hard, even for a mother.

Almost forgot…it was really sad to see the Mavericks fall, but its a great consolation to see the Devils mopping up. Come on Giguere where you at man?!

Posted by Mr. Keyur at May 30, 2003 01:13 AM | TrackBack