Snippets #10

• Here I go again, quoting Annie who wrote: If you’re still using Internet Explorer please do the world wide web a favour and download Firefox instead. It’s free and it will get you laid.

Well, lads, lets me tell yez, if Firefox’ll get you laid, then the latest release of Thunderbird will get you laid by ninety nine vestal virgins - every hour. It rocks. It’s the Rolling Stones without being stuck in the carpark*. You’ll never use Outlook or it’s ilk again. You’ll never, as Bertie would say, go back to yer auld pencils and paper.

Version 2.0.0.6 (20070728) was released on July 28 - who’d have guessed? Get it now!

Note: A small word of warning: Even though you don’t expect a vestal virgin to be carrying anything, it pays to take precautions. If you are upgrading from an unvestal virgin, some of your plug-ins may no longer work or may have to be reinstalled. (Excuse the imagery). But that said, it is still well worth it.

* The sibling and partner are sitting in the car at Slane after tonight’s concert and haven’t moved in over an hour. MCD screws up again?

• I don’t know why, but the following from years back just popped into my head. Maybe it’s all this talk of virgins, or the Welsh connection.

There was a young girl from Aberystwyth
Who took some corn to the mill to make grist with
But the miller’s son Jack
Laid her flat on her back
And united the organs they pissed with

• And speaking of boys and girls, the Reluctant Memsahib (who is a girl - a stunner in fact - I’ve seen her picture) praised me no end during the week and I quote: she’s said very kind things about both home school and the inevitability of boarding. And she frequently makes me laugh. Well Mem, you made me laugh too, and so much that your post is my pick of the week for Mo Rogha.

• Back to slogans: Every time I login to StatCounter I read the message Increase your log size today and can’t help silently adding Eat more fibre. By the way, is it just me or has StatCounter become disastrously slow in the last few weeks? Has Aodhán’s getting the award attracted so many signups they are having trouble coping? The answer is probably somewhere on their blog or forum but they are equally slow to load so I couldn’t be arsed checking.