hip deep in pie.

I'm chatting with my friend and classmate AA, and for some reason felt compelled to share with her my bedroom. Now, get your minds out of the gutter. This is what I meant:

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Some time ago I posted an entry about how Safari always pauses for interminable periods of time. I found a reasonable, although not ideal, solution.
At least one possible cause for the delays is Safari poring over its cache of form field completions. If you uncheck the "other forms" in this preference panel, you can avoid that searching.

My friend Tantek, who works at Technorati, pointed me to an interesting tally of blog-based votes. It appears that they scan blogs for a particular link (i.e., for Kerry, against Bush), and then accumulate the results. So, in order to be a good voting blog citizen, I hereby cast my vote(s):

I support Kerry. Howard Dean would have been my first choice, followed by Al Sharpton, but I actually think Kerry's pandering is going to be a good thing, allowing him to be much more moderate.

I oppose Bush on the strongest possible terms. His stance(s) on religion, gay rights, the environment, domestic policy, foreign policy, fair elections, and probably everything else run so counter to my own notion of what's right for the country, that I can find no redeeming quality in the man. He couldn't even get the space program right (consider Mars Direct, instead).

A while back posted an entry about my Brother multifunction laser printer. In it I mentioned that 20-lb 3-hole paper almost always jammed, but that 24-lb paper worked. Well that wasn't quite true. 24-lb paper works about 70% of the time, but still jams far too frequently.
The longer I own this printer, the more and more disappointed I am with it. I could care less about the fax and scanner if the printer doesn't meet all my needs. It's painfully slow (at least compared to the HP 2300N at work), and often times can't print.
For example, printing AMC theaters movie listings from Safari results in a command syntax error. Printing the same page to a PDF file and then printing also does not work.