I've recently been trying out the Opera browser, since Firefox kept crashing on me all the time.
Opera offers their community a free little blog area thing in which you can upload photos, links, join their forum, enter some competitions and all sorts. They've recently reached over 900,000 members and it's still growing!
It's no MySpace, but it's certainly a good-looking community. I've not had enough time yet to look around properly, but I'll update you on that later.
So, basically, if you're a bit bored of firefox, tired of the same old IE or still don't know why Avant is a bit poor, try Opera and see.
The only minor thing is for some reason, whenever I try to sign into Hotmail, I have to do it four times in a row. Twice on their 'old' layout, and two on their new "Windows Live!" layout, saying my password is incorrect, but on the fourth time, bam! I'm in. Weird.
Oh yeah, a quick note, you'll notice some banners floating around on some posts. They're going to always be on those posts, and on the lower area of my blog's main page (under Adsense) as this earns me an extra £5 ($10) per month. Good stuff.
Today I had my third driving lesson, and was instructed to do 6 "three point turns", which are now officially called a "Turn In The Road". Doesn't matter if you can't turn the car around in 3 moves, as long as you do it safely you're fine.
He said.
So I did that, and all was good and we went for a drive around the local area before coming home. £38 big ones (Around $80) for a two hour lesson! Well, it's worth it. I wouldn't want some guy who gets annoyed or finds it hard to explain thigns to me. =D
Also, I've just been browsing around the internet (mainly youtube.com) and I came across this video:
Now, I've seen something similar to this, but this one was done a lot better. This'll definately appeal to the Zelda fans, and maybe so to those of you who haven't played the game, but know about Link's inability to speak.
So that was a good haul. Newgrounds is down for the moment as they're refurbishing their site - making it sleeker and generally more better then it initially was, so I'm waiting eagerly for that to open.
Onto Half-Life news, they've nearly completed the Orange Box and it will be expected to be released in Q3 of this year, which it better be, because I've been looking forward to that game package for AGES.
I've spent some of my cash on four games. Well, five, but I'll explain. I had some trouble with a company with one of their games. It wouldn't work on my system, basically. After some research I found it to be a blacklisted game and I couldn't find a way to fix the error at the time, so I wanted a refund. They said "fine" and sent me a replacement game instead, after I asked them "where's my refund?" four days later. "Okay...?" I said, and got the game. The *same* game.
Again.
So I sent it back, saying "I want a refund, including a refund on the £1.20 I've spent sending th games back to you". He said "okay". Four days later I say "Where's my refund?" and he says "I've sent you a replacement game and refunded you the price of the game, but not the price of the postage" so now I'm like "Ooookaaaay...?"
Either way I got 90% of what I asked for, after almost two weeks. So, after all that, I've got a game that won't work on my system and spent £1.20 getting it. Nice.
But at least I bought "Beyond Good and Evil", "SWAT 4", "Psychonauts" and "Conflict: Desert Storm". Old games, yes, but I like them. I've done the whole Doom 3 + expansion, Quake 4, Half-Life 2 and Gears of War stuff. Waiting on buying Lost Planet for my PC soon, or maybe Xbox 360. Depends if I can get a new processor off eBay by then for my PC.
That's all for now, check back soon 'cos I've got some ideas for my Kadtoon t-shirts coming up! Wahoo!
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