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I do indeed fucking hate the internet. I just want to watch some streaming music videos before I go to bed (as god knows mtv doesn’t play videos anymore), but can i? No. MTV.com doesn’t work with firefox (or netscape, or anything but ie), so I try IE and they don’t have the video I want. So then it’s on to music.aol.com, who have the video I want, and they support firefox. Oh wait, they support the old (1.x) version of firefox. I’m up-to-date (1.5), so I’m not supported. So back to IE. Only god knows what’s going wrong with IE, as it won’t play anything. It just pop’s up the pop-up window in which the video is supposed to play, and renders the controls, but nothing happens. AOL’s help on the matter is useless too, that is when i can get far enough in failing to play the video to get a link to “help.” Their suggestions are restart and update your computer. My computer lives up to date. All MS patches, every video and audio codec known to man (thanks to the k-lite codec pack) and I just restarted a few hours ago. GOD DAMN. I think I’ll just go to bed.

2006. I can’t believe that we’re now more than half done with the decade. I still think of the year 2000 like it was yesterday. I suppose that I’ll probably always feel that way about my high school and first college years. Because it really does seem like yesterday.

Got together with Brendan, a guy I’ve known since my first attempt at college, over break. Turns out that we’ve now known each other for 7 (SEVEN) years. I couldn’t get over that. That’s more than a third of my cognizant life. It’s just astounding.

In other news, I’ve wanted to add gallery (2) to one of my sites so I have some sort of interface on all the folders of pictures that it houses. The only problem is is that Gallery2 has the worst install directions for iis6/server2003 EVAR. I run a lot of stuff that was designed for *nix on a windows platform, and Gallery has by far the worst instructions I’ve come across. They assume that nothing more than IIS is installed on the machine, and their guide for configuring php assumes (what I assume is) 4.x, not 5.x which has been out for some time, as I broke my 5.0.4 install following the instructions for G2. It also doesn’t speak to what sort of hierarchy G2 needs in terms of folder structure for the install. Oh well, I’ll just have to try to stumble through it.