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General Chaos

if I had a rocket launcher

My kids got me some great Father's Day presents: a singing stuffed oriole, a trick can of saltwater taffy with a jumping shark/snake in it, Taj Mahal(cool!) and Alien Ant Farm (DUDE!) CDs, and Spiderman for Nintendo GameCube. Okay, so maybe that last one was for them, too. But I got them a present that was also for me as well: an Estes ready-to-fly model rocket kit.

This evening, we walked over to the field behind the local elementary school and did four launches.By the last one, we had the attention of most of the kids in the neighborhood–it's kind of hard to miss the”WOOOOOOOOOOSH! Pop!”

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Mo' on Mozilla

OK, I've said it before, but now it's official. I am dragging Opera and Internet Explorer into the trash can as I type this–at least on my G4 Cube running OS X. After a week and a half of gruelling surfing, Mozilla 1.0 has earned its place as my default browser.

And I've got to say one feature of Mozilla pushed it over the top for me: the tabs. That, and the popup window blocking.

The mail client is okay; I'm now using it for one of my many mailboxes. While it certainly surpasses the Netscape mail client in many ways, I'm not quite sure I'm ready to dump my standalone mail client quite yet.

Still, I don't think I can be as ebullient as eWeek about a web browser. Okay, I get it guys, you like open source, you hate Microsoft. For your own sake, get over it.

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