I believe that taxes are the price of civilization, but did they have to make TurboTax even less fun to use than it was last year?

I suppose I could offload the hassle to an accountant, but given that I’m fairly careful about claiming what I can claim — but don’t believe in pushing the envelope — I can’t believe one would save me enough money to justify the expense unless they went too far.

Personally, I have so many plugins running that I don’t just wait for a new firefox to be out of beta but wait about three weeks for all the plugins to catch up. (Betas tend to break plugins, and many plugins lag even the final releases.)

But it’s nice to read that there is a way to Try Out Firefox 3 Risk-Free with a Portable Version. Theoretically, if you follow the instructions you can run F3 without hurting your F2.

Maybe this weekend….

Having tried and failed to do so on two computers, despite trying a host of client-side hacks, I’m grumpy about it.

Thanks to two of said hacks, I can see the folder as a “network connection” but even so I still can’t map it. Alas, I need to map it to make some convenient things happen.

And, yes, I should use Unix. But I depend on WordPerfect…

I’ve got to learn to write these. It looks so easy, but my first try bombed…

“Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12, mere hours old, is vulnerable by default to a directory traversal trick, via the view-source mechanism. Although mitigated by the NoScript plug-in, this is quite a serious bug — the default installation is vulnerable from the get-go.”

From the Wubi FAQ:

How does Wubi work?

Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.

Is this running Ubuntu within a virtual environment or something similar?

No. This is a real installation, the only difference is that Ubuntu is installed within a file as opposed to being installed within its own partition. Thus we spare you the trouble to create a free partition for Ubuntu. And we spare you the trouble to have to burn a CD-Rom.

Dare I try this at work?

Microsoft have really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal. From my testing, discussions with friends and colleagues, and a review of the material out there on the web there seems to be no doubt whatsoever that that upgrade to XP is well worth the money. Microsoft can really pat themselves on the back for a job well done, delivering an operating system which is much faster and far more reliable than its predecessor. Anyone who thinks there are problems in the Microsoft Windows team need only point to this fantastic release and scoff loudly.

So a big Thank You to Justin Somnia for his Resizable Form Fields for Firefox plugin.

Get Miro while it’s hot. (Warning: this is a 24MB download, and it’s popular, so it may be a bit slow.)

Hmmm. 2,500 channels. Is there anything on?