After 4 miserable days of morphine and various other drugs, I am back at work. It's hard to believe I used to take stuff for recreation that now makes any type of reasoning null and void. Actually, it was making us null and void then. Ahhh the 'gray days'. I certainly don't long for them. It's nice to be functioning on any level. Certainly wasn't earlier this week! Let me tell you brothers and sisters, kidneystones hurt (this is probably the understatement of the year)! Three days were spent man-crying and whining at the speed o' light. So, I am older and now have no desire to get stoned or kidneystoned
Beta News has announced that Microsoft will stop production of Outlook Express. Support will continue, but alternatives need to be considered. Billy n the boys in Redmond will push MSN9 and Outlook 2003. This may possibly open the door for mail clients heretofore unused, which is a good thing. Just another way to make money for Microsoft. What's next? Internet Explorer 7 for sale? Marc Andresson, get yo' whine box ready! Mozilla is open source and a nice alternative to IE6. Kmail is way kewl too. Running on the Linux Red-Hat OS also keeps the Kmail client pretty much virus free at this writing anyway. With all the authentication code voodoo, smarmy attitude, etc., Microsoft is opening the door for alternative operating systems. Linux keeps getting better and free BSD is making a loud noise in this arena. If Satan will call Steve Jobs back to hell where he belongs and the Apple people will stop all the high profit margins, their PCs might become more popular since they've crawled outta the cave and updated their hardware technology. And quit making lame claims about the world's fastest computer! Outright lies, I tell ya. It's a beautiful day in the cyber-neighborhood.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams, Dilbert Cartoonist
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