Moving, Flu and having a case of the dumb

Rule number…Well, let’s face it, it’s probably top ten, but not number 1 – is that moving is always stressful; Always. I’m currently typing from a wireless keyboard (that I hate), with my monitor positioned on the bedside cabinet at my folks house while my new flat gets made ready for me by the landlord. It’s not especially a hassle, but to say that I’m looking forward to being able to live the lifestyle of a chronic insomniac from a desk and chair is going to be most welcome, come next saturday. Still. Most of it is out the way now, and I don’t really have to venture out in the cold after this week aside from needing to go pick up my new specs perscription, and obviously, move in. Nice…Considering UK has been the equivalent of a deep freeze, and I have an impending flu to deal with. I’m told by mother that I’m dealing with it like a man, which in her language means I’m being a complete pussy – I contest this claim, and merely assert that I am using said flu time to take stock and do a little writing.

As a side distraction to all of this, I’ve had the complete 7 series of Star Trek: TNG fall into my lap. This is a good and a bad thing, as it means, at least in my head that I now have licence to complete the set by buying DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, The Films and the original (and animated series), and then bite my way through stargate. I was debating the subject of downloading (legal and not so legally) with a friend a week or so ago, and we both agreed that having the physical property sitting on your bookshelf is unequalled in feeling – I agree with that view completely, and am resolving to cut my downloading habits out over the next year, to the point that I can say that the cases on my shelf are the real thing, and not a print out after buying a film or series from iTunes, printing out the cover and burning them off.

Finally, I would like to offer some advice – never upgrade things when your head is full of cold. It makes things five times more complex than it actually needs to be. Also, ignore the summer glau picture – there’s no reason for her to be there other than that I find her extremely sexy, and I wanted some space filler.

Onto more webby things – is anyone else having consistent memory leak issues with firefox regardless of the version they use? I’ve upgraded twice now, and no matter what I do, the resources it takes gets way out of control, and I have no option but to shut the whole web browser down and restart, after I’ve gone into the task manager and closed it manaually. Because apparently it seems the only way to really shut it down these days, because if you try to merely exit the programme, it crashes and stops responding. I’d look at moving to another browser, but I haven’t found a method of transferring bookmarks AND passwords to safari or chrome.

The answer of course, is that mozilla and adobe collectively should get off their behinds and develop x64 packages of flash and firefox, but that doesn’t look like it’s happening any time soon.