Reading Week Blues

As of 12:30 yesterday, I am officially on reading week (with the exception of my engineering requirement, as apparently work, and especially tutorials are oxygen to them). Typically the 'reading' portion is a misnomer of what actually goes on, drinking, and sitting around thinking about anything BUT courses. Unfortunately, in fashion true to the way the rest of the term has gone, this isn't the case for me. To top it off, I have been finding myself increasingly unmotivated (or decreasingly motivated, pick your poison) lately. Loads upon loads of mundane, mostly repetitive work in my courses, and moreso my labs, combined with a few amazingly uninteresting profs have made it very difficult to actually focus. And once again, the co-op department at the university sucks, and I gotta get on finding my own job. Oh how I love dropping 500 bucks a term on co-op fees for them to accomplish nothing.

Everything will work out though...on some level anyways. I'm determined not to let it get me down, just gotta get it done.

On the positive side of life...I have a week without any NEW assignments or labs, and its starting to smell like spring outside. To top it all off MBlog is back up and running, and I'm lovin the new style set-up. Hopefully it isn't once again ruined by the ignorant who run rampant on this here interweb...Al Gore really should have designed things better.

I read this today on MBlog in regards to Internet Explorer:

"My reason for bringing it up is that I have this sneaking suspicion that my sidebar is being pushed down to the bottom of the page in IE. Apple hasn’t supported IE for a few years now, so I don’t use it or have it. In fact, if someone you know does, arrange an intervention immediately! The truth? I can be bothered to fix it. It looks perfect in Firefox and Safari and all the numbers add up. So help a brother out, get Firefox. Girls will flock to you, boys will swoon over you, you’ll inherit 10 million dollars, be invited to all the best parties, and live out the rest if your days worshiped by everyone who has the good fortune to know you. And it’s 100% free. For the love of all that is holy – act now!"

Now, while I don't use an Apple, I DID do all my templates and formatting using HTML and XML coding (to my limited level of knowledge) within Firefox. I just checked it out in IE after the suggestion that my comments weren't working properly (and needed to use a browser without an existing cookie/saved settings to do so). All I can say is wow....spacing looks like hell, font colours off...in short, I too urge anyone reading this to get Firefox for free right....NOW. If you want to get away from Outlook as well, I use Thunderbird now for mail (I've never been one to use newsgroups, but apparently it works well for those as well). Firefox and Thunderbird are both free, and both work excellently, and there is no good excuse for at least not trying out Firefox.