I just tried Windows Longhorn beta 4051. I got it off of emule. It is *very* ugly.

Longhorn is much more bloated than Windows XP (and I thought that was bad). Windows Explorer in Longhorn has a large XP-style menu on the left side and a completely unnecessary menu under the toolbars. Combined with the *gigantic* back and forward buttons that are permanently docked at the /very/ top of the window, this leaves very little space for the actual file view. To top it all off, the address bar is actually visible by default (was not in XP) but it looks horrific; yet it does have a semi-cool drop-down list for each directory/subdirectory.

The quicklaunch, system tray, and clock now reside in their own gigantic (~5-icon width wide) toolbar on the right side of the screen. The clock is overly large. When you click on the clock a much larger clock will popup. The taskbar and new ugly sidebar take forever to load. The sidebar can be minimized, but then there is no way to see your quicklaunch, system tray, and clock.... What a shame.

Longhorn on emule:
Longhorn.PDC.Build.4051.PROPER[www.eselfilme.de].rar

Found this BASIC haiku on slashdot:
10 PRINT "This is a"
20 PRINT "Haiku program"
30 GOTO 10

Quoted from American AC in Paris (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=105859&cid=9011125)

Torrentz is a website that allows you to download just about anything you could want (legally or illegally) via Bitorrent. Torrentz changed their homepage for about a week to notify their visitors that they would be down due to legal issues. It appears now that Torrentz is down for good. I will now have to rely on www.suprnova.org, emule, and StreamRipper.

What is piracy coming to?

I currently know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript very well. I usually end up looking up CSS commands and I have to refer to websites for some lesser-known JavaScript commands. I also know Perl and some Visual Basic commands. I can easily alter Perl scripts and I have made some of my own. I do not know Perl very fluently but I know if well enough. I only know some Visual Basic code because I have developed a few Visual Basic programs. The VB project I am most proud of is Network Message Send. I currently know bits and pieces of Unix shell script, DOS, and any other language similar to the ones I already know.

I haven't been able to program and design much recently because I've been busy with school, swimming, water polo, and illness. I am going to learn Java next year in a class in high school. I am not too excited about learning Java but it is the only language they teach at my school besides Visual Basic. I believe Java will not grow online anymore. It is almost obsolete on the internet and the only place it is really used is cellphones. I self-taught myself all of the other languages I know so I am not sure how they will teach the course and if it will be easier to learn from an instructor.

This is my first post on this blog. I am not sure what I will end up putting on this blog. I'll probably just use it to share my thoughts.