Fine, Internet Explorer, you broke our Windows…
But we still found another computer and uploaded this, fuck your TOTALLY UNFIXING XP Hotfix patch!*
(P.S., Tide386 at Microsoft, oh ye frequent reader of this site–yes of course we check our stats are you kidding–not that you don’t have better things to do and all–BUT CAN YOU HELP US OUT? We are VERY busy and important.)
Posted by altehaggen in Uncategorized @ Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:46 pm | Tags: backstalking, Moi, nevvie | Comments (3)











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It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment one achieves literary success, but when Stephen King picks up the phone to interrupt your Good Morning America appearance to personally thank you for writing your latest book, you know you are in the ballpark.
It might seem odd to describe a novel that involves barfing in cars, stalking boys and a drunk dad playing beer pong in his underpants as heartwarming, but Beach Week author Susan Coll is a master at finding wisdom in the unexpected.





Remaking society can take decades. But global rebellion is short work for sharpshooter Katniss Everdeen, who single-handedly foments a revolution in Suzanne Collins’ blockbuster young-adult Hunger Games trilogy. America likes its champions reluctant, and Collins specializes in that surly breed: her heroine trounces dystopic despots while chewing her cheek in self-doubt.






I live in Jersey City, about as far from a Betty Draper’s magnolia petal-overlaid redoubt as you can get. But every morning, I am mildly taken aback when I find myself marching among a troop that is entirely female, women of my age and station, ranging from the harried to the glamorous, all pushing one or two offspring toward the park in an assortment of urban-optimized carriages. Really? I think.
Jonathan Safran Foer has a son. He’s not the Son, I don’t think, although I might be forgiven for doing so. Because even though it is generally agreed that we are living in a child-centered moment, Eating Animals, the Everything Is Illuminated author’s somewhat reheated contribution to the recent spate of ruminations on flesh eating (verdict: don’t), is a singular entry in the annals of parenting literature—bypassing a now-commonplace obsession with one’s offspring to head straight to sanctification.












Welcome to ‘Fine Lines’, the Friday feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children’s and YA books we loved in our youth.












A story that rides on its own melting also runs the risk of dissolving entirely. In William Henry Lewis’s second collection of short fiction — his first, ”In the Arms of Our Elders,” was published by Carolina Wren Press a decade ago — the slow, lyric stories of love, loss and longing have a sensuous appeal, but they often threaten to disappear into the ether before they get off the ground.






Haggis: There are some problems with IE7. You can uninstall if you go to Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs and get rid of IE7, reverting back to IE 6. If you need tech support by phone, let me know.
But on the flip side, what the sam hill are you doing using Internet Explorer? Firefox, baby. It’s got plug-ins! You know what I mean when I say plug-ins, right?
Comment by ed — 3/22/2007 @ 5:52 pm
Ah, ed, you know me better than THAT. Had to install that piece of shit in order to run some online system that only allows IE, DON’T GET ME STARTED. It kept not showing up, so I used CC cleaner to remove; then deleted all my registries, preventing me from using System Restore. Now the whole computer is fine EXCEPT my wireless, which seems to be gone, which would be fine, but my ThinkAccess connections software won’t let me power on the radio. A kind person told me to reinstall those drivers, and then I will see what I can do. I mean, literally the normal Windows wireless thing is missing.
Ugh. I guess I probably will have to just reinstall XP and update EVERYTHING and die a thousand deaths.
I will put my plugins up against your plugins ANY DAY OF THE WEEK LOOK UP EARLY ADOPTER IN THE DICTIONARY AND YOU WILL SEE ME, MOFO.
Comment by altehaggen — 3/22/2007 @ 6:11 pm
You’re still good. My notebook’s hard disk went dead a month ago. I lost everything.
Yeah, I know there’s back-up but, would you believe it if I told you that my cd drive was unwilling to burn anything? That’s what happened actually.
Now, I have a portable hard disk of 80G! HA, full with tv shows ranging from Lost, Prison Break and Heroes to Battlestar Galactica and stuff.
(Couldn’t resist showing off. Not that you care. You’re so IMPORTANT, you know.)
Comment by Khalil A. — 3/23/2007 @ 1:51 am