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Apr. 6th, 2006
Another health update
Apr. 6th, 2006 03:24 pmI have been down with what I think was the flu since Monday night. While at first I thought it was connected to the antibiotics, these were the same dosages I tolerated pretty well the last time. I was useless Tuesday and Wednesday, but have rallied today.
There is nothing worse than having a flu that demands that you just sit in a chair watching daytime TV. This is possibly the worst fate ever. I even watched "Wine TV" for 1/2 an hour. I'm doomed.
On a brighter note, I've just confirmed a tutoring gig for the end of the month; my first paid work since January. I'm hoping it will be the first of many. After all, I want to live in the style to which I wish to become accustomed. And it's not fair to HWMBO to continue to support me unaided.
There is nothing worse than having a flu that demands that you just sit in a chair watching daytime TV. This is possibly the worst fate ever. I even watched "Wine TV" for 1/2 an hour. I'm doomed.
On a brighter note, I've just confirmed a tutoring gig for the end of the month; my first paid work since January. I'm hoping it will be the first of many. After all, I want to live in the style to which I wish to become accustomed. And it's not fair to HWMBO to continue to support me unaided.
Opera vs. Firefox
Apr. 6th, 2006 09:30 pmWe've been using Opera for a few years now. It was a real revelation (real tabbed windows, intelligent browsing, etc. etc. and so on) but had some deficiencies. For example, HWMBO and I read a variety of websites in varied encodings (including Chinese for him and Classical Greek for me) and Opera never seemed to be able to reliably auto-detect the encoding for a website. This may have been due to deficiencies in websites, but it resulted in a lot of gibberish, lost pound signs (I mean real pounds sterling, not octothorpes), and assorted weirdnesses around quotation marks. Our online banking website also didn't work with Opera, nor did my BT webmail site. It was a pain having to revert to IE all the time.
So, I decided to try Firefox for a while. It imported all my Opera bookmarks (an important point), and it seems to reliably auto-detect everything. My banking website works well in it, and it seems to be a bit easier to use than Opera. HWMBO reports that his Chinese websites also render correctly.
I think that unless someone tells me how to fix Opera (and I don't imagine anyone will) we'll be uninstalling it and using Firefox as our default browser.
See ya, Opera. Nice knowing ya (most of the time).
So, I decided to try Firefox for a while. It imported all my Opera bookmarks (an important point), and it seems to reliably auto-detect everything. My banking website works well in it, and it seems to be a bit easier to use than Opera. HWMBO reports that his Chinese websites also render correctly.
I think that unless someone tells me how to fix Opera (and I don't imagine anyone will) we'll be uninstalling it and using Firefox as our default browser.
See ya, Opera. Nice knowing ya (most of the time).