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[peterbirks]

Windows persuaded me to install Internet Explorer 8 last night. The first time I opened it up I managed to freeze it, but nothing has gone wrong since. The "Accelerator" and "Web slice" options, look like they could be useful, and there's a whole raft of add-ons that try to fight back against non-Microsoft search engines. But all of these strike me as being created by a videogame generation, one for whom the ideal is to create a work-based add-on that is fun so that you can spend eight hours tweaking it and being useful at the same time (rather than eight hours in front of the screen playing Grand Theft Auto IX). Ordinary people, meanwhile, just want the computer to do stuff; they don't want to waste eight hours of their life customizing it.

The "add-ons" seemed to run to 43 pages of 10, and that's before you pick annything. Most of them seem shit, while some seem duplicated shit (I spotted three versions of "Stumble Upon" for example).

But this isn't the main worry. The main worry is that, if something is really useful then you feel lost when you have to use another PC that is not your own. It's a paradox. If the add-on wouldn't be missed at another machien, then you don't need the add-on. If the add-on would be missed, then it shouldn't be an add-on; it should be installed as standard.

The computer world is trying to get round this by allowing you to store your "preferences" online. Well, that's the plan. Except that where do you store those preferences? If it's with Microsoft, it won't have all your Opera or Firefox or Google Chrome preferences. It will stick you to IE8. Although it's a dream that a "personal" computer could be transferrable to any machine in the world, it just ain't gonna happen.

But, wh not? Why the online restriction? Why not have a program that could just transfer "your" machine (not the files, just all of the preferences on your browser, on Word, and on any other program that you use) to any new one that you use? And, yes, I can hear the answer now.... Security.

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I continue to run like Mr McBad of BadRunTown, with a 10BI downsing on $100BI (and now running flat at that level since about mid-March). a $1000 downswing on Stars, and generally all a bit of a pisser. I was also running bad on Party this morning, but "got out" with QQ on a board of KQJ and three all-ins (not including the original raiser pf, whom I had reraised).

I'm about 31% on the flop , by the way.


$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 25,

Seat 6 is the button

Total number of players : 10

Seat 1: ixyesia ( $25 USD )
Seat 2: JustLeague ( $220.22 USD )
Seat 4: PokerStenz80 ( $53.50 USD )
Seat 3: St4lliN ( $212.90 USD )
Seat 5: Hero ( $202.25 USD )
Seat 6: rodimus604 ( $120.88 USD )
Seat 7: Villain ( $110.65 USD )
Seat 8: v8ers ( $57 USD )
Seat 9: sunny_uwc ( $374.22 USD )
Seat 10: natcat_83 ( $79.40 USD )

Villain posts small blind [$1 USD].
v8ers posts big blind [$2 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to Hero [ Q♣; Q♡; ]
sunny_uwc folds
natcat_83 folds
ixyesia folds
JustLeague raises [$6 USD]
St4lliN folds
PokerStenz80 folds
Hero raises [$18 USD]
rodimus604 calls [$18 USD]
Villain calls [$17 USD]
v8ers folds
JustLeague calls [$12 USD]

** Dealing Flop ** [ J◊;, K♠, Q♠ ]

Villain bets [$2 USD]
JustLeague calls [$2 USD]
Hero raises [$75 USD]
rodimus604 is all-In [$102.88 USD]
Villain is all-In [$90.65 USD]
JustLeague folds
Hero calls [$27.88 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 2♠ ]
** Dealing River ** [ J♠ ]

Hero shows [ Q♣;, Q♡; ]a full house, Queens full of Jacks.
rodimus604 doesn't show [ K♣;, A♡; ]two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
Villain doesn't show [ A◊;, T♠ ]a flush, King high.

Hero wins $20.46 USD from the side pot 1 with a full house, Queens full of Jacks.
Hero wins $350.95 USD from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of Jacks.