the latest version of firefox (1.5) is out now, and after a few attempts to get the firefox update system to install it for me, i decided to download and do it myself.

it’s amazing, in this current age of technological advancement, that “do it yourself” even exists as a phrase anymore. but it does and i’ve had to deal with it a lot recently. you better have a big trunk, because i’m gonna put my bike in it.

i thought, yay! new firefox! yay! this will be great.

as it’s installing, it tells me my extensions and themes may not work. ok, i can deal with that. i like my extensions and themes, but maybe i can live without them for a little while. i don’t fear change.

but then i go to print off some half.com packing slips and it goes all wacko on me. i always highlight the part of the packing slip that i need and print off just that portion. apparently, firefox 1.5 prints some of the highlighting so the print copy looks like the printer is dying or has bad gas.

that was the last straw. i’ll stick with version 1.0.7 for now. i think 1.5 might still be wearing beta pants.

it doesn’t get much better than the daily show with jon stewart. or does it?

when i first heard about the colbert report, i had my doubts. i wasn’t sure if stephen colbert could do a whole show on his own and pull it off. he was funny on the daily show, but a half hour show is a different story.

i think it’s better than the daily show. it’s kinda hard to believe.

what i find most entertaining is how similar it is to the o’reilly factor. the difference being that bill o’reilly is dead serious, whereas stephen colbert seems serious, but it’s all tongue-in-cheek. the colbert report is much more entertaining than the o’reilly factor. i’ll tell you that right now.

for instance, stephen does this thing called the “threat down” where he lists the five most dangerous things, and somehow bears always make the list. he has a lot of fear and hatred toward bears.

then, he is always putting people, places, and things “on notice”. and if he runs out of room on his “on notice” list, he moves stuff over to his “dead to me” list. i think he had to put ‘pant cuffs’ on the “on notice” list, which meant that ‘new york intellectuals’ had to be moved to the “dead to me” list.

everyone should watch or tivo this show.