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A. BitTorrent, how I love thee! There will be Stargate tonight. And what a download rate I'm getting right now! 98KB/s!!!

B. I watched the Starsky & Hutch trailer. Oh my lord. They have made a mockery of all that we hold dear. OTOH, the Season 1 DVDs will be out in March. I hope they do well enough that they put the other seasons out too.

C. Yesterday, I was reading an article on slashdot about the latest Internet Explorer exploit. No big surprise. But in the comments, someone linked to a Microsoft support article about Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks. Here's Microsoft's solution:

The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself.

Cue my hysterical laughter.

Hal's solution:

1. Don't use Windows.

1a. If you must use Windows, install Mozilla and Eudora and don't use IE and Outlook. And for the love of Carl, disable the preview pane in whatever mail program you use.

D. I like beer.

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the Starsky & Hutch trailer. Oh my lord.

The sweater! The car! The adidas! The soundtrack! Snoop Dogg!

But you're right -- assuming you're being serious {g} -- I sense mockery, and I'm not sure I like it.

As soon as Dobie said, "Why are you touching him?" I thought -- they're mocking *us*. *sigh*

I find some beer drinkable...

I like sherry. And Irish whiskey.

And sweet wines. I have NO palate.

Oh, and in context with the remake of S&H...

I think remakes of tv series into movies is a bad bad bad idea fostered by people who either can't remember their childhood or never left it. Unless there is some incredibly wonderful twist they can perform on it (like Will Smith in Wild Wild West) it should be forbidden.

And movie makers who do it should be tied up with their eyelids taped open and forced to watch Barney and Teletubbies tapes until they go insane.

I thought Charlie's Angels worked pretty well. But there, because of the way the show was, they could say it was just a continuation, rather than a remake. But mostly, ITA.

ph33r the slashdot! it shall surely eat your brain.

True! But I only read it at work, so that's OK. It helps to keep me sane. I'm addicted to my daily dose of SCO controversy now. *g*

I hate beer. If you should come across any pictures of me smiling while about to imbibe a large glass of Stella, they are clearly propaganda designed to get you to think that I like beer.

And Mozilla rules. (So says the person who at the moment is typing in IE on a Windows NT computer. Sigh. I want to go home to my Mac. My Mac loves me and bittorrents things for me while I slave away. In fact, I watched Death Knell yesterday, but I'm pretending I didn't. I was doing a fine job of pretending until you drug it out of me. You are evol!)

So, why are you pretending that you didn't watch Death Knell? Did it traumatize you? (I haven't watched it yet.) Do you think it's more virtuous to wait until SciFi airs it?

And I am proud of my evol, beer-swilling ways!

It's the second reason. I am watching with Sci-fi. I am *so* not downloading a week and a half ahead of time and watching then. No sirreee, bob. Chimera? Never heard of it.

Beer, oh beer. Why have you deserted me. I think it's time for a trip to My Hometown Beverages.

I downloaded Mozilla on your recommendation, and we are all rather impressed by it! I didn't bother with Eudora because we are weirdos who use only webmail.

Huzzah! I'm so pleased when I can convince people to switch. Make sure you configure it to block pop-ups. That's half the reason to have it.

The other half is tabbed browsing. If you've never used that, prepare for it to change your life. I can't imagine dealing with LJ without it.

When you want to open a link, right-click on it and you'll get the option of opening it in a new tab. That puts it in the same window, but there are tabs across the top, to easily switch from one to the other.

When I read LJ, I keep my own page open in the first tab, my friends page in the second, and then as I read, I open new tabs with the entries I want to comment on or read cuts from. I have mine set to open the new tabs in the background too, which I find helps a lot.

Happy browsing!

Well, I must admit to being unwillingly amused by several things in the S&H trailer, but for the most part I was vastly unamused. I'm not even that much of an S&H fan, but I've read and watched enough not to appreciate the mockery. It looks more like a parody of the show than a remake.

Exactly! S&H was a funny show, but this is, as you say, a parody. So much for the glory of the buddy cop show.

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