A Summer’s Tale
Wednesday 11th April 2007My sketchbook fell in the toilet so here is a story to keep you entertained whilst the pages dry.
A Summer’s Tale
Chewie was out back sweeping up the watermelon rinds and the shit with and old leafy branch when he chanced a gaze over the boulevard to examine the curious behaviors of his neighbor Mrs ____.
She was beavering away at the final stages of completing her lunar orbiter. Chewie felt a compulsion to give comment after 8 long months of holding his tongue.
“You went and used plain galvanized metal on the outer hull, she’ll burn up on re-entry.”
“Yeah well I ain’t a comin’ back! How ’bout that asshole!”
And with that Mrs ____ fired one or the 3 afterburners and incinerated Chewie where he lay.
The End
Did Microsoft change your default web browser? [Windows updates April 2007]
Wednesday 11th April 2007I arrived to work on this sunny day to find a number of Windows updates waiting for me to let them loose;
- MS07-017 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB925902)
- MS07-019 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB931261)
- MS07-020 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB932168)
- MS07-021 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB930178)
- MS07-022 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB931784)
So being someone who likes to stay up to date I clicked the install button, obviously once the updates were installed I permormed the ritual restart. Once I was back on I opened up Firefox (my preferred web browser) and to my surprise it wasn’t the default web browser anymore, Internet bloody Explorer was. So I instantly assumed it had something to do with the updates. A few minutes later and a workmate of mine (sleeping Stu) just finished installing his updates and fired Mozilla Firefox up and the same thing happened, IE was now the default web browser. Is Microsoft sneakily trying to force us all to use IE? Has anyone else had the same thing happen to them? And does anyone have any explanation to this IE takeover?
After reading a number of articles and registering at the Technet webcast I am still none the wiser;
Anybody?
