I think this is my first ever post using the WordPress web interface– normally I use my own astoundingly unstable HTML Editor which allows me to easily compose posts offline using Microsoft′s DHTML control [as used by Outlook Express when composing HTML emails], but I′m back in Murwillumbah at the moment, keeping Dad company while Mum is in hospital – where incidentally she is responding well to treatment, and is hopefully well on the way to a full recovery – so this time around I′ve decided I′m not going to set up my old computer with all my software and folders just to upload a few posts… It′s time for me to embrace the browser and try doing things the way most other people do them, using just my parents′ Celeron 300.

So far, I′ve decided that I really hate: Win98, custom databases which can′t be rebuilt without calling a support person [and hence prevent me from upgrading the OS of this computer], IE′s lack of tabbed browsing, the auto-search feature of IE when it can′t find a domain, people who register www.domain.com but not domain.com, dial-up connections, the fact that reflexively hitting Ctrl+S while typing in a TEXTAREA prompts to save the entire page [and not the stuff you′re typing], the incredibly loud whining sound that this computer is making…