Bugger

Oh come on, you know what I’m talking about.

Dreamweaver vs Studio

As I have a bit of money in the bank I want to upgrade some of the software I use. First on the list is an upgrade from Dreamweaver MX to Dreamweaver MX 2004. But should I just upgrade DW or should I go the whole hog and upgrade to the full Studio suite? Flash would mainly be used just to produce sIFR objects; Fireworks I hate but some people I work with like to provide designs in Fireworks format; Freehand and Cold Fusion might see a little use but probably not much. So it doesn’t sound like a good use of that extra £250. But, I can’t seem to just rule it out.

DVDs vs VHS

Until now I’ve been good. I haven’t bought anything on DVD that I already own on VHS. Sure the quality’s better and there can be some nice extras. But, there are so many things that I don’t already own that it just doesn’t make sense to buy the same thing again. (On a similar note, I haven’t replaced very many of my old casettes with CDs either, but my musical taste has changed somewhat over the years so this isn’t really an issue.)

But DVDs take a lot less space than tapes. For example, I have the whole run of Blakes 7 on VHS and at a very spacious two episodes per tape that adds up to twenty six tapes. The new DVD box sets would contain thirteen episodes in a box the size of just two tapes. That’s a space saving of more than three-to-one.

Opera vs Firefox

I moved from Netscape to Opera back in 1998. In the intervening years no other browser has come close to suiting my needs as well as Opera does. Firefox comes close, very close. This is going to be a tough one.

Bought one of the old LUG Star Trek RPG books on Saturday. Found it in a clearance sale in Guildford Waterstones going for £3.95, which brings the running total to £53.95.

I had a whole bunch of halloween themed posts I was going to publish yesterday. But the MySQL database that powers this site had entirely vanished. It’s back now but this was rather worrying.