this is a screenshot of what my windows desktop looks like currently.

i’ve seen desktops that have a couple of hundred icons on them. for quick access apparently. snrk.

for really quick access i have i have the dock on the side. to replace my taskbar/start menu i use objectdock from stardock.

i’ve been using opera 9.5 (alpha) for the last few days.

one thing i noticed is that it loads fast. and works even faster. i have a lot of extensions installed in firefox, but even on a fresh install firefox isn’t this fast.

some of things opera does out of the box you need an extension for in firefox. there’s a few things i’d like to tweak but there are no options for tweaking, at least i can’t find them via the opera interface. i haven’t hit the forums yet to see what kind of tweaking is available.

wand feature isn’t working for me at all, but given this is the alpha version i expect that will be fixed before it’s released. widgets are a nice feature but mostless useless.

i can think of a dozen useful widget ideas offhand that aren’t available at all. the create a widget feature is a nice idea but has a ways to go.

the quick dial page is a great idea. probably just a matter of time before there’s a firefox extension that does the same thing.

one thing i forgot to mention last blog is that the new Babe Ruth album is the very first album i’ve bought electronically. i’m not sure it would eventually be available in cd format but i didn’t want to wait.

i’ve heard it a few times now and at first i thought the album would have fit between First Base and Amar Caballero, but now i think between Amar and Babe Ruth (the self titled 3rd album)

There’s no mistaking it for another band though. it sounds like babe ruth…

thinking of music, it seemed like huey lewis and the news disappeared. not that i listen to the radio much anymore but i don’t miss that band at all… there’s a whole slew of ’80’s bands i don’t miss.

as far as i’m concerned with the exception of a few albums in ‘84 and maybe half a dozen since then, music was pretty much over when disco became popular in ‘78.

i’ll go out on a limb and say the best music every produced was easily between ‘67 up to and including ‘77.