Firefox 1.06 + Blogger = Huge frickin’ mess

In order to more fully access Blogger’s features, which are limited under Safari 1.3.1, I decided to give a slightly older version of Firefox a try. Things were going quite smoothly until my computer decided that it wanted to hang. Force-quitting was not an immediate option, as I had already typed in the damned Ben Affleck entry twice, and I wasn’t going to retype it a third time. My computer was making a ton of fan noise – must’ve been driving the CPU nuts or something. So I finally managed to get to a point where I could copy the whole entry and paste it into a Safari window.

So to try to improve things, I attempted to download Firefox 1.5. Then the .dmg file decides it wants to display itself as gibberish characters on the screen instead of downloading as a file. It’s been that kind of computing evening. Time for bed.

Ben Affleck’s TV curse

First, Push, Nevada (no, I can’t believe that this link still works, either) gets canned barely two months into its first season. They had to resort to a teaser spot during a MNF game to provide the final clues to solve the mystery.

And now, because he got Jennifer Garner pregnant, Alias has been canceled effective the end of this season. Some others on message boards have said that it’s not Ben’s fault, but when they had to work the pregnancy into the storyline, things really went downhill. Which is a shame, because this show (when it was really good) could provide some of the best cliffhangers and plot twists on TV. I just hope they end it appropriately. For me, an “appropriate” ending would include Sark and Sloane meeting a grisly demise.