The anti trust lawsuit against Microsoft for being responsible for the demise of Netscape is like blaming Joe Montana for not hitting a home run to win the world series. It is ignorant. The reason Netscape went out of existence was that it was on apple computers. When people started using windows, Internet explorer was offered by the operating system. Microsoft grew and apple/netscape died off.

From Netscape's 4.0, the browser has been trash. Creating websites that were compliant with IE and Netscape was like creating two sites. Long have I waited for Netscape to go away so that I didn't have to worry with visitors using those browsers. Netscape lingered on with Netscape 4.7 for an eternity, just like now, how internet explorer has just come out with its latest browser. And during this downtime of Internet Explorer updates, FireFox has taken over some of microsofts browser market share. Due to microsoft taking such a long time to update their browser.

Netscape is not really a browser anymore. Netscape embodies two engines, the mozilla engine and the IE engine to display websites. That alone should tell you where Netscape has fallen as a browser, and why their demise is the result of their own.

Last Friday was a day I will never want to happen again. Early in the workday i was unloading some computers and monitors out of a van onto a truck bed headed for the dump. After throwing a couple of things onto the truck bed i lifted another PC case and was carrying it around to the front of the van when all of a sudden by back gave way and i set the PC case down. i tried to lift it again but i couldn't.

i felt a tightness in my spine that went from my hip to the top of my shoulder blades. I didn't hurt or feel anything for a minute. Then i started feeling tight and a slight ache came around into my lower back. I told my boss and then we went to tell the people in charge of workers compensation what had happen.

I go to the doctor, he tells me to come back Monday and we will check it again. He gave me some muscle relaxers and ibuprofen. I went back to work to get my things and headed home. I got into my car, drove 60 yards to wachovia. Got out of the car and before i got to the front bumper my legs locked up and i couldn't walk and my back felt like something was squeezing it. A lady at the bank stops and asks if I'm OK, i tell her that i don't know, I'm not sure whats going on. Then a guy from work pulls up, he asks me whats going on, i tell him i don't know. they leave, i then work myself back into the car and drive back to work.

I call someone up and tell them i cant walk, i probably cant drive, and I had yet been to the pharmacy to get my medicine. I tried getting out of the car when i got back to work. That didn't work because i needed something to lean on.

i get into the car thats taking me home. We get the medication and I'm on the way home. When I get out of the car my back pulls me to the ground like a ton of bricks and the more i fight it the more it hurts and pulls. I go down to my knees on the gravel and then pick myself up and dash for the door. I get in the house and lay on the couch and turn into a ball.

There is this rushing aching pain in my back and i try to move and it hurts. I'm on the couch, i need to get up and go to the bedroom. In order to get around i had to roll off the couch work myself up to being on all fours and crawl, sometimes i would pause for pain breaks or spasm. Friday night was horrible. Saturday was worse.

Thinking i had slept and i was all ready to go was a dream. There was no chance of walking Saturday. Getting out of the bed and going to the bathroom was thirty or forty minutes. I smoked far less cigarettes Friday and Saturday.

With youth and muscle relaxers by midnight Saturday i was walking. The medication needed time to get around my system. And for a short period of time i appreciated being able to walk again and be able to eat something in another room.

I have been on recovery now for a little over a week from the worst back injury I've had to date. I feel a little stiff after sitting or standing for a while. But i think i will be well again soon. Well enough to bowl before the seasons end. God knows I have to work, he also knows I have to bowl. So go on and heal my back. I am ready to bowl.

If you come across some chinese food in your refrigerator and you cant remember the day you got it, even if it looks o.k. to eat, do not eat it.

Self, this chinese food could in actuality be old and might make you puke all over the place. This could end up costing you money. A visit to the hospital is not free. There must be something we can eat, maybe find another lover. Should I fly to los angeles, find my asshole brother.