The Chris Gonyea Project

Well I slept more this afternoon and that seemed to help me out a lot. Feeling a lot less congested and I know it isn’t the medicine talking since I didn’t take another dose. My temperature is back to normal, which is good news.

If there is one thing I learned today, that is there is nothing on TV outside of horrible attempts at TV news and bad shows.

Not at work today due to having a real bad case of a cold and fever. Fun stuff. I slept a lot this morning after taking some more medicine and forced myself to eat even though I really didn’t feel hungry.

Turned on the TV news and lasted about 5 seconds before turning it off. The news sucks, more of the “let’s get the most extremely opposite people possible and throw them on the air to piss off everyone else while calling it news” method of giving us people news that matters (*yawn*). So I’m laying on the couch and using my laptop for a little bit to catch up on everything.

I am going to try to study for my CCNA test later this afternoon if I feel up to it. I do feel slightly better, but that might be the medicine talking. I’ll find out when it wears off…

Not fun being sick. Not fun at all.

The latest version of the greatest browser on earth has been released. Get Firefox 1.0.2 today!

Apparently Mozilla.org is not releasing zip versions of its Firefox and Thunderbird releases anymore. It looks like there are a lot of problems when zip versions are installed and then an installer version is installed ontop of them.

I should note first, I don’t use the zip builds, I use the installer. However…

This is a very very very bad decision, as the zip builds have a ton of uses. These are the ones I can think of just off the top of my head:

1. Those who hate installers and don’t like anything installed on their computer using an installer.
2. Those who like to have different versions on their computer
3. The Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird projects
4. Those who don’t have the rights to install Firefox and/or Thunderbird on their computer (such as at work)

Mozilla.org made a huge mistake here. They took the easiest way possible to solve their issues with zip builds, instead of making it a little harder for those who shouldn’t use zip builds to find them.

Why not just create a sub directory just for zip files? I don’t understand the logic of getting rid of zip builds.

Also, don’t get me start on the fact that no one from Mozilla.org announced this big change beforehand. You would think after past communication issues they would be smarter about big changes like this.

Chase’s blog has a (late) announcement of the change, while the MozillaZine forums has a Firefox thread and a Thunderbird thread dealing with the topic.