Public service announcement

This applies to Windows users only - Mac and *nix users will find their browser karma in different ways.

I can count on one finger the number of unwanted pop-ups (or pop-unders) that I've encountered in the last 2-3 years of browsing.  I certainly don't feel like I've been missing out for not getting those popups, and I have yet to encounter a site whose legitimate pop-ups haven't worked.  I don't know why people insist on letting runaway pop-ups ruin their browsing experience when the fix is very easy.

Solution 1: Duh.



Solution 2: If you insist on using IE, upgrade your damn browser.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

Solution 3: Get a decent popup blocker

http://www.bayden.com/popper/

If you are too paranoid (or sane) to upgrade to SP2, or you're running an older version of Windows, then get Popup Popper - the best pop-up blocker out there -- and it's free.  Trust me, you'll wonder how you ever surfed without it.

Anyway, that's all for today.  I'm off to a training course for the rest of the day.

Y1K Compliant?

Behind the cut tag is a snapshot from the corner of one of our system screens.  I never noticed this until today, when the screen was projected up on the big screen in front of the training lab, and then this was the first thing I noticed.

( Apparently not everything here is Y2K compliant! )

No surprise. I'm memed out again for awhile.

I figured I'd end up as one of the metalic ones.

A GOLD Dragon Lies Beneath!

My inner dragon is the most honorable of all. I enjoy shape-shifting, humans, and the occasional crusade to save the world. I'm what you might call a Draconic Knight. Click the image to try the Inner Dragon Online Quiz for yourself.



"Your Inner Dragon is the most honorable of all. Golds are the third rarest of all the dragons (after Platinum and Chromatic dragons) and have a station in society that reflects their rarity. You are what one might call a Draconic Knight. Golds live by a strict code of chivalry and commitment. Remember Draco? Yep, Gold Dragon. Your appearance is fearsome and all-mighty but you'd never stoop so low as to bring any harm to a human. As a matter of fact, that's strictly contrary to your code of conduct. You're one of only two dragon types that is aligned "Lawful Good" and is proficient in the use of magic and spells. If you're curious, the other is Platinum, the King of the Dragons. Your piety, beauty, wisdom, and inner strength are absolutely without parallel.

But of course, being a Gold Dragon isn't all high ethics and codes. You like to fly around scaring things, advise humans in their affairs, and shapeshift. Strike that, you LOVE to shapeshift. And you're great at it. In fact, if you're a Gold on the inside, you might be a Gold on the outside, too - just in human form. Your favorable attributes are honor, chivalry, truth, kindness, gold, mining, protection, wisdom, bravery, and trustworthiness. You might be a bit too trusting of humans at times, but they're just kids compared to you. If anyone threatens your humans or tries to kill you, you could strike back with your breath weapon - Fire. But then, no one's tried anything that stupid in the last couple thousand years. After all, you're about 54 feet long."

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I was alternately playing with Terragen (it runs so much faster on atara's computer!) and designing a couple of new LJ icons. I was going to comment on how I seem to go for dark and macabre icons, and how I might be a dysphoric goth in the body of a dumpy loser.. then I noticed what was playing on the random shuffle, and I realised that I am pure, 100% dumpy loser. The truth hurts sometimes. That's why God invented beer.