Redesigning the Archives

It's been a long time since I looked away from my computer, but I'm going to let it go. The archives are broken. Since I lost all of my old templates, I'm going to have to rebuild them all, but I'll do that another day. Despite all of my hellish trouble with MovableType, I'm exceedingly impressed with it. The new interface is nice too, especially with the improved control over comments.

In other news, I'm using a lot of new software which is extremely nice. With my new internet connection I don't have to use SPA for email, so I can now use Mozilla Thunderbird. Version 1.0 is incredibly cool. It's pretty fast with my new computer (handled my deletion of 1500 notifications of comment spam without a hitch), and it has an integrated RSS reader that is incredibly convenient and easy to use. Firefox 1.0 is, of course, really nice, but I've been using it for a while. I finally switched to iTunes! It's part of my long-term plan to get a free iPod from freeipods.com (help!). It's unbelievable how much simpler (and therefore better) it is than Windows Media Player. With each additional feature, the usability of WinMP goes down... "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" I got my hands on a free C++ IDE for Windows. It's called Bloodshed Dev-C++, and it should work well for my purposes. I'm using the MinGW C++ compiler with it. I think that it's some kind of port of the GCC to Windows, although I don't really understand it. Finally I was able to stop using Roxio software for CD compilations. From Jon I got an unused copy of the Nero OEM suite, which came with his DVD burner. It's a little cheesy, but far more stable than the Roxio garbage. The Roxio software actually crashed about 70% of the time I tried to use it. It was phenomenal.

Anyway, I highly recommend the preceding programs. They're pretty good. I need to take a shower so I can go to school and fill out some forms for science bowl...