I’m running IE6. I have a great little links bar on top with all my bookmarks. I enjoy this. However, IE6 has no idea what it’s doing. When I click on a favourite I have no clue where my link will appear.

Sometimes it’ll pop up a new window, sometimes it will take over some random window (like my Webmail…) and I can’t seem to find out where to fix it. Anybody else have this problem?

This happens to me all the time, I hope I’m not the only one.

I run Win2k and when I type sentances, I like to capitalize the first letter. I do this by holding shift then typing a letter. Sadly, I often start typing without thinking, so I’ll hold down shift, and muse my first word. Well, Win2k assumes I am crippled and can’t type properly and boinks up this fine message:

Boo!

The following is the refreshing Licensing Agreement from Winamp’s new developers beta of WinAmp 3:

This is beta software. Play with it as much as you like, but don’t blame us if it melts your computer into a pile of scrap metal or steals your girlfriend. Check out the readme.txt for some features to try out.

Is that not much more effective than ICQ’s Licensing Agreement? Both companies are owned by the same mega-corporation, btw.

Along the same lines, also check out another of Winamp’s download agreements.

Now that we live in the age of sincerity, I thought I would give it a shot. To be clear, however sincere this post may purport to be, it pales in comparison to Rob’s classic Easter post.

Due to a variety of recent life circumstances, I have found myself, on occasion, in the capable and caring hands of my family. Growing up in North America, family isn’t something a young man is overtly taught to value. Family, rather, is term homophobic politicians use to convey a baseless and dangerously vague set of values. Perhaps as a result of this, I have been surprised to find that I am genuinely grateful and appreciative of my family.

At a stage in life where freedom and independence are paramount, I am, perhaps in some part due to this very freedom, only now beginning to understand the value of family. For this, I am thankful.

What are you thankful for?

The good boys of radiohead are finally going to officially release a recording of their song True Love Waits. Apparently from the OK Computer era, the song is at least as strong as some of their best album tracks. Apparently they’ve yet to produce a studio recording to their satisfaction

The song will be included on the live I Might Be Wrong EP which will be released in November.

If you go fishing for versions of the song (and you should, the keyboard arpeggios will make you cry) you should also look for the many varied versions of the The Bends-era track, Killer Cars.

Eels have a new album out: “Souljacker.” Rock and roll with horns used sparingly. The usual brilliant lyrics.

Oct. 4th at Confed. Centre Library at 8pm. I will be introducing a poet I’ve never read. He is Bruce Taylor. He has also written a book about puppeteering! Admission is free. Nice people get coffee and cookies or something. Muffins, maybe.

If you are a fulltime UPEI student, and have two hours to spare on most Wednesdays, The Cadre will give you twenty five dollars. You will go where we tell you. You will put copies of the paper there. This is entirely legal.

If you can create original graphics that closely resemble elements from cold-war era soviet propaganda posters please let me know. This is a very serious request.

New aioku. Check it. Go.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from The Onion this week. Last week’s edition didn’t come out because of the WTC/Pentagon massacres.

The Onion did an entire edition about last week’s terrorism. I was amazed by how well they handled it. Two things in particular are God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule and then the Talking To Your Child About The WTC Attack sections.

The writers there are amazing.

For those who haven’t picked up on his self-serving hints, let it be known to all that award winning poet* and aov genius Matthew Dorrell is now the Editor-in-Chief of The Cadre, the student newspaper at the University of Prince Edward Island.

I have criticized The Cadre in the past for reading as though it was written by five people with an intended audience of those same five people (I’m in trouble now – those five people are half of the aov readership). Matt’s first two issues have been interesting and point to an awareness of an audience beyond the dingy basement of Main Building where the paper is produced. The second issue also made tasteful use of a stock illustration. This is a remarkable feat in of itself (I’ll post a scan when I get the chance). I’m not surprised, but I am encouraged.

Congratulations Matt.

In semi-related news, watch UPEI’s Alumni Gym (and future site of their new Student Centre) burn to the ground.

In English Lit the other day, we were discussing an English trick I was rather fond of. Sadly, I forgot the name of it. But. In my desperate search for “metaphor+compound+word” I found this list of very cool words for things I didn’t know were defined.

I did learn that saying things like “Whale-road” for Ocean was a kenning, but there are some other cool ones there too.

I now believe that Coolbreeze is the master of tmesis.