So I’m a cheap date, but hey with this economy you have to be! Honey took me to the Planetarium for their “Distant Planets” show where they talked about how they find the planets (technical) and show you where in the universe they are located and then show you artist renditions of what these planets may look like (very cool). With him being a student at the SRJC (Santa Rosa Junior College) he got in for 3 bucks and I got in for 5. So ok, he was the cheap date. He could have told them I was a student because he didn’t have his ID on him and they said it was ok. He didn’t though, he’s honest like that and I let him decide. I’ve used the Little Lady’s look to say she’s younger now and again (but it saved me 30 freaking bucks, so you would have, too).
Anyway, if you’re in the area and want to see a great show, you should check it out. Cheap and there are also free shows as well. Here’s a link to the website: SRJC Planetarium.
A friend asked me about GMail Notifier. She couldn’t find it to download. Do you know what a pain in the ass it is to have to Google something that should be easy to find by a link from, oh I don’t know, gmail.com? They should have a link to the freaking download page right on the login page! So I found it, sent her a link and a nice email saying I was downloading it too and that if it didn’t work with Vista (which so far it does) that I’d let her know any issues I had. Although since she just bought a new computer she probably has 64-bit whereas we have 32-bit and there might be some form of difference.
Yahoo is driving me insane. It starts up with the computer (which I’m going to shut it off) and yet when I go to use it to sign in, it goes away. Yahoo closes completely from what I can tell and I have to go through the process of opening it. Why have it start up if I’m going to have to open it anyway? Perhaps it’ll subtract a few seconds from the boot time.
Thinking of the length of boot time reminded me about my virus scanner. I used to use AVG free home edition. But I could not stand how long it took for the computer to boot. Honey found something to put on his aunt’s computer and I asked him about it. Avast also has a free version (do a google for avast home edition free) and it is so much nicer than AVG. Not only did the time it takes for the computer to fully boot drop minutes off, the virus scanner doesn’t interfere (slow the machine down to a snail’s pace) when it goes through it’s scanning. Also it comes with it’s own spyware and adware removal software built in, and it constantly runs, but I can’t tell because the computer doesn’t slow down or give me issues.
Yet today I seem to be having issues again with IE. Remember the post where I gave up on IE and made FireFox my main browser? Well it is, anything opened will go into FF. I still use IE though when I am doing things with Disillusioned and non-flash related websites. I have to watch my shows in FF because everything is pretty much Flash-based and the chat with Cafemom doesn’t work in IE after all my efforts of installing flash.
I’ve been wondering if I should upgrade to IE 8.0. Does anyone out there have 8.0 and if you do, how is it? Does it work with Vista? Is it crap and I shouldn’t bother? I wanted to uninstall IE 7 and reinstall it but I can’t find it anywhere on here in order to do that. I was hoping it would be in the remove programs list but it isn’t. I probably wouldn’t be able to find a version of 7 to download anyway, right? Anyway, I’ve got to start dishes soon. Later.
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