I ventured to the macintosh lab at my school which consists of 5 PowerPC G4 933mhz machines. There is supposedly a computer graphics lab on campus though it is restricted to art majors. Need to make some friends in the computer department.
So I get here and guess what? All these wonderful macintoshes are running Mac OS 9 I nearly cried till i realized I had tiger installed on my iPod. So now i'm sitting here on this mac running tiger, booted off my ipod. The mac lab is in a nicely secluded section of the lab, i really had no idea quite how large the computer lab in this building is. The only problem so far running this booted copy of tiger is that Safari Refused to load HTTPS pages. So i installed FireFox.
It seems that every URL in everything I google is tracking back to google like.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://salon.com/&e=7620
instead of just
http://salon.com
I wonder if google selectivly picks up your cookie and then tracks what you click on for your entire session?
I just cleared my cookies and guess what? It no longer tracks my clicks even though I have a new cookie set.
seems that google is doing session tracking.

Why did I need https? Because after nearly two years my IP address changed!
My ip didn't change on August 14th and I didn't change when we had the two-day power outage at my home. But now, after no power outages or resets, it changes. comcast sucks.

Anyway at least I have a halfway decent computer to work with since my laptop is dead… It seems noone cared enough to paypal me any money, not even a single dollar. bah.
Oh, if you want to get in touch with me my gmail account is a better bet than the gotlinux ones. at least for the moment.