Pariah's Ponderings

Okay, so the 2009 season of NASCAR racing is about to get underway..the time of year when the smell of burning rubber drifts lazily through the air..the time of year to hear my favorite non-word, repeated 2 times just in case I didn't hear it the first... Tony is gearing up for his biggest race year ever...and have I ever been hearing about it!!  Examples? 1.  Wow, Tony is an owner this year, that's a lot of pressure...well, perhaps and perhaps not..This is Tony's first time owning a NASCAR team but Tony is not a stranger to owning race car teams by any means.  World of Outlaws? hellew! 2.  Tony is too out of shape to drive well.......um have you seen Tony lately?  He's dropped a good 20 pounds at least and is looking as fine as ever.. 3.  Yeah but do you even know the last time an owner/driver won a race?.......um yes, do you?  1998, Ricky Rudd at Martinsville..geez..have some faith..it's Tony Stewart we're talking about ......he'll get it done..he just nee

My my what short memories the sheeple have... It seems like just yesterday so many people were excited by Windows Vista..only to sadly realize that they spent hundreds of dollars to run bug infested, useless crap. So, now Windows 7 will soon be here..(well that was quite soon on the heels of Vista, now wasn't it?) And once again, I hear many many herds thundering to their collective hooves, shouting once more the battle cry of Bill Gates, "Knowledge can only be mine!" Let me say that so far, I remain so very unimpressed.  Windows 7 can have all the bells, quirks, whistles, toots, tweaks and whatnot but the sad fact remains that no matter what kind of RAM-sucking programs will come with this latest version of Windblows, it can be assured that there will be at least 30 viruses that are out to kill it within 3 days of release.  *Random thought- I wonder if they are *Nix users ha!* Then to top off the 'let's spend all your money' trap, you will have to either get

I have to say first and foremost that I am hopelessly in love with my Opera web browser.  I have been ever since the day when my old Firefox 1.x crashed and wouldn't run or reinstall...ah the fond memories of running Windows OS..if only I had known *sigh* At any rate, I had to replace my comatose Firefox with something because the only other option was Internet Explorer (yeah, right!) That started it all..the love affair I have had with Opera has continued now for what 3 or 4 years now?  I'm now a much smarter Linux user now and I don't even have a regular email client...I just use Opera Mail and we suit quite well...I never had much use for the Speed Dial Feature though..until now.  Recently I have been acquiring a couple of domains and the hosts that inevitably come with as well as blog advertising opportunities I have been trying out for a little bit of money.. This has been quite a drain on my already far-gone memory, so I recently started using and then relying on my S