It's that time of year again. 1 score and 14 years ago, I began the slink towards Jerusalem which we call life. I traditionally celebrate my birthday with this ancient Negro spiritual, as performed by the Atlanta, GA-based bluegrass band, Blur.

Damon say:

It's my birthday No one here day Very strange day I think of you day Go outside day Sit in park day Watch the sky day What a pathetic day I dont like this day it makes me feel too small I dont like these days They make me feel so small

It's the first birthday I've ever had where I was cold. It's cold outside.

Update:

I woke up this morning, well, today, and it wasn't cold anymore. It turned out to be the most stunning day of the year so far. 73F, little cottonball clouds, and the kind of sky they had to invent words like "azure" for. It just goes to show you, if you whine enough, God will hear you. Which doesn't bode well for November.

The Mozilla Workers' Party has announced version 0.9 of Firefox (click the link over there on the clichd and unintuitive interface element, "left-hand sidebar"). In the name of openness, and to avoid a browser monopoly, every single person on the Internet should use Firefox.

IE==HITLER!!!

If you're not using Firefox, you might just as well have sawed off those guys' heads with your own blood-soaked hands. Take a stand! Internet Explorer won't even let you see its source code! Firefox will, though the shit might as well be in Chinese for all the good it'll do you. No, really, peruse them 35,000,000 lines of spaghetti and find the little meatball that's sending your surfing habits to Richard StaLLLman. Ok, maybe that's not such a hot metaphor, but I think you get my point.

Seething Rage

That's the feeling I get every time I see that smirking, chimp-like blue "e" spinning in the top right navigation area thing up there. Ugh, how the hell did this insane Nazi browser get (ssssss)elected to be king of the freaking web, anyway? Nothing but a little piece of trailer-trash, elevated to the role of Puppet-in-Chief by its connections to Big OS Money.

It's time for Regime Change here in the Internet. I want to be able to use CSS rounded corners and alpha transparency, not "filters" and "effects". Don't let the Internet's fate be determined by the same kind of people who made BonziBuddy a household word.

Stop killing babies and start using Firefox!