FireFox Sucks

As you can tell from the title of the post and the lovely graphic above (from http://firefoxsuck.blogspot.com/) I am of the strict opinion FireFox sucks. I recently decided to give the browser a try as many people swear by it claiming it is the most amazing thing since sliced bread. So, I downloaded it yesterday. No complaints for the first day, felt it ran everything the same as IE, couldn't really notice a difference. So today I email myself a paper I had been working on for a class. Went to the law school, opened up my email, downloaded my paper, saved it continuously throughout the day, and then went out to dinner and came home.

I had finished my paper before I went to dinner so I could have a nice relaxing evening doing some editing and watching TV. I get home, turn on my laptop, and....no paper. None whatsoever. I go to the folder I had set FireFox to download items to, nothing there. Apparently, when I told the program to save the document to my computer, FireFox, in its ultimate wisdom, decided that I really didn't want to do that. Not only was my paper not there, but every other thing I had downloaded from the program was missing as well.

Now, I guess according to FireFox, I have invented an entirely new thing: SAVING A FILE FROM THE INTERNET. To them, I must be the new Al Gore. You figure that when a person says download a file and then save to X folder, it would occur. This is something that Microsoft's IE has been doing correctly, every single time, since their first version. Now here's the silly thing. In the event that you accidently don't choose a different folder to save your document to, IE will save it to a temp folder that lasts for a long period of time. I guess FireFox thought that having a backup for saving files was not a good thing. Wow, what a bunch of idiots.

I'm sure anyone who actually reads this blog will know that I used to be an IT professional. But there might be a person or two, and if they are a die hard FireFox user, they will post snarky comments, let me explain. I used to document recovery for a living. From the misnamed file, to the corrupted file needed for the board meeting in 20 mins, I would get those back every single time. I know almost all the tricks to get stuff back, and I probably even made a few up over the years. So when I say a document that I spent 8 hours working on, and constantly saving, is gone, it's f*cking gone.

In conclusion, f*ck FireFox and a word to the wise if you are considering using that POS program.

Hello Again

Wow, it's been a while since I posted. The semester is at the end right now and I'm in "reading week" for finals. Meaning, oh shit, I have to do all that reading I slacked off on if I want a slim chance of passing. Good times.

For the most part, finals don't seem like they will be too bad this semester. The registrar was kind and they are fairly evenly spaced out. Plus, they are all open book so for the past week or so I've been creating outlines. As I'm writing these, I've been rocking out to some old(er) music from my life. Right now, I've got some Ozma on and Weazer may not be too far away. Since I'm not able to enjoy the beautiful weather in DC, guess I'll have to be satisfied with some ole classics.

Back to work for me, have fun all you non-almost-lawyers out there.

Life is a . . . Rollercoaster?

Ah, the ups and downs of life. Law school, for the past few weeks, has been the most challenging so far. The work hasn't been harder, per se, but the workload has been crazy. First, I participated in the Moot Court qualifier for my school (more on this later), which involved researching and writing an appellate brief. Second, we received our assignment and record for the appellate brief for our Legal Writing class. Third, Con Law assigned 70 pages of reading the day I was on call (and I hadn't been called on yet). Finally, the Moot Court Oral arguments were last weekend.

Starting with the ups first, I made the Moot Court team for my law school! The work, luckily, wasn't too difficult for the competition since they picked an easy problem for us to research, but it was still way too time consuming. Probably spent 15-20 hours writing the brief and another 10-20 preparing for oral arguments. The last part wasn't too bad because I was practicing with a (now) good buddy of mine. We laughed, we cried, we kicked each others asses, but most importantly, we both made the team. Getting drinks with the rest of the team this week so it will be nice to meet everyone who is on it.

Next, the downs. Legal Writing and Con Law are kicking my ass with the workload right now. Luckily, I'm not on call for a few weeks in Con Law, but our final Legal Writing brief is due in 3. I spent 17 hours on campus yesterday writing the assignment and only got a few hours sleep. This, of course, is on top of our Journal's Short Write-on Competition. That will be a fun Spring Break.

And lastly, I'll end on another high note. After Moot Court competition last weekend it was a friends birthday so we went out to a couple bars in D.C. and ended up closing out a pretty cool one (MCCXXIII). By the end of that night (morning?) I had been up for 22 hours and was beat; but totally worth the good time with friends!

Writer's Block

I don't know about you, but it seems like whenever I have free time to update my blog, I can't think of anything to write about. Yet, the second I'm swamped with work, etc., I have a million ideas. Reminds me of Serendipity from Dogma who was a muse when she was an angel but is now a stripper on Earth. Explaining her lack of success, "That's the cosmic joke. I can give out a zillion and nine ideas a second, but I can't keep any for myself." Then, of course, we have Silent Bob's only line of the film, "No ticket," which is just a classic. Watching that movie at my alma mater was always a guilty pleasure.

Since I have nothing interesting to stay, I'll leave you with stolen material from Eavesdrop DC:

Two law students
Student 1: I hate her she's so rude to me
Student 2: You should totally kill her
Student 1: But seriously I can't stand her
Student 2: Just kill her, if you kill her that means you don't have a soul
Student 1: *perplexed* And that's a good thing?
Student 2: Of course, if you don't have a soul your grades will go up at least 10 pts per class. It may be your best shot to get into the top 10 percent.

Ahh, that feels good

Welcome to the new subdomain! As was mentioned on the old one, I decided to move to a more anonymous site for a variety of reasons. Plus, who doesn't like change?

Hmm, witty comments are escaping me right now, probably due to all the cold medications I'm on. Caught something this weekend and am trying like the devil to snuff it out quick. So, in lieu of my comments, I will will leave you with a comic that had me cracking up all day: http://xkcd.com/325/

Almost Torture

Arriving at class this morning, I saw something that would be tantamount to torture if it happened to us the U.S. No, it wasn't waterboarding (which the A.G. refuses to acknowledge as clearly illegal). This would be much worse. According to CNN, an Internet failure has affected much of Asia, the Middle East, north Africa.


Poor people of those nations. How will the Chinese continue to hack into the DOD? How will YouTube continue to rake in profits from advertising? But, more importantly, how will Asian law students make it through classes today?


If we were to lose the internet for a while, I'm not quite sure how we would survive. I sit towards the back in of all of my classes and this affords me a view of all of my classmates computer screens, for better or worse. And, while I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone this, class notes are not the primary items on people's screens. Based upon my observations, here are the top six things I see:

1. Google: Mail, Chat, Search Engine, etc.
2. Facebook
3. ESPN/SI
4. CNN
5. Perez Hilton
6. Blogs

OK, I guess I should finish this post up since my class is about to end. . .

More Quotes

Memo is due this week, so to tide you over here are some recent and not so recent quotes:
Students:

• "Why weren't you stoned to death as a child?"
• A: "What were we talking about before sex?"
  B: "Brazilian Waxes."
  A: "Before that...Oh yeah, property!"
• "Send me dirty emails tomorrow in class, it's the only way I'll survive."
• A: "What does that word mean?" [Referring to word played in Scrabulous]
  B: "I don't know."
  A: "Did you look it up?"
  B: "Yes, it's not in the dictionary."

Professors:

• "I was gonna say you can deliver it orally, but that would come out dirty."
• "Fine, I'm just going to fail all of you."
• "If we lived in a dictatorship, or at least a cheerocracy, this would be so much easier."
• "OK, now why don't we actually do class."
• "The courts do it to themselves."