A program that knows it’s limits (56 Kb files), is frugal on features and resources, and is elegant in it’s simplicity: Microsoft’s Notepad.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Photoshop as much as the next person, but Notepad has never crashed on me.

After making a post on the IslandEdition.com message board suggesting that ExaComm’s websites PEISearch.com and IslandAuction.pe.ca where horrible Yahoo and eBay rip-offs, respectively, I was surprised to find out that I was unable to convince the mob that some form of theft has taken place. Before descending into inanity, including a post which read, in entirety, “stephen = idiotic comments” which was posted by an anonymous coward. Read the thread yourself and you decide, but please don’t email me if you disagree because you are an idiot.

On a remotely related note, I would like to acknowledge inspiration from Peter Rukavina’s Reinvented.net, and 37signals‘ Signal vs. Noise. Both sites are absolutely brilliant, and while I did appropriate the general concept of the sites, I was careful not to borrow any features of the design and layout beyond what is common to the popular but unfortunately titled “blog” phenomenon.