I was tagged by Mari to show you a picture of my desktop and five programs I can’t live without. Here’s my desktop:

My background is a guitar wall, which I got off the Internet a while ago. I’m absolutely in love with guitars, and I’m learning how to play one right now. My desktop is really cluttered - I’m too lazy to delete unused programs. Here are the top five programs I can’t live without:

Internet Explorer: Yes, I am one of those few people who love IE. It’s never been problematic for me, and I love how it has tabs. For some reason, Mozilla annoys me. Maybe it’s the color… I don’t know. I’m very sensitive to changes on my computer, and changing to using an orange Mozilla browser would annoy me. Yes, I know. It’s weird.

Microsoft FrontPage: I LOVE Microsoft FrontPage. It edits all my HTML code, plus I can preview it easily. The only downside is it doesn’t know how to use PHP. But I create all my webpages in FrontPage.

iTunes: I need my music. I went on a trip with my 8th grade class, and I almost died because we couldn’t bring our iPods. iTunes is awesome! It lets me browse, download songs, plus songs are pretty cheap to buy.

Adobe Photoshop: Photoshop can do anything. All hail the almighty Photoshop! I make all my layout headers in Photoshop - it’s so easy! The only downside is it costs a lot. A LOT.

Mozilla Thunderbird: This is a program I just acquired recently. It’s an email program, and it’s great. I can highlight names of important people so it notifies me when they email me, I can tag things, and overall it just helps me be very organized with my emails.

There’s my top five!

Oh, and some site stuff. The contest is up (and has been), so please enter! I also finished revising the opinion page and the music page.

Posted: October 19th, 2007 under Personal, Random, Site Updates.
Comments: 4

Sigh. Have you ever had that one teacher that really gets on your nerves? Well, I have. I have him right now. There were rumors before I found out I had him that I think changed my opinion of him. Well, kind of. The rumors were really bad, and I listened to them. I know I’d still dislike him without the rumors influencing me, but I think the rumors really made me have a negative attitude towards him before he even started teaching. Now, I still dislike him, but I kind of feel sorry for him. Kind of. A little. Maybe. Ugh.

What I really dislike about him is his teaching style. He goes off on random tangents during class, and we’re the ones who have to do the work on our own. I turn in every little piece of work because he never tells you whether it’s due or not. He won’t tell you about tests, so you’re never prepared, and he “assigns” things you never know about. His personality, well, it’s OK I guess. But the rumors were mainly about his personality, so I think that that made me feel negative towards him as a person. But I know he’s a good person, and means well. I just chose not to accept it before. Now I feel kind of guilty….

Have you ever been influenced by a rumor? Has it totally affected what you felt toward a person/activity?

Posted: October 16th, 2007 under Personal.
Comments: 3

A lot of people have “#1 sports,” where they have a top priority sport that they play year round. I’m different, I play different sports each season. Winter is basketball, fall is field hockey and track, summer is softball, and spring is field hockey. I either play for my school, or Rec & Ed, which is like a non-competitive sporting system. I couldn’t play on a travel team or whatever because the competition and pressure would get to me. Don’t get me wrong - I love to win games and I always do my best, but for me, it’s more about the fun than the winning. That’s not the case for everyone.

The people who I know have a top priority sport seem more competitive to me, and they’re the ones who seem to yell at other people for doing something wrong. Not everyone is like that, but some of the people I know are. Are you serious about your sports? What sports do you play? Do you have a top priority sport? Comment away!

* And for the people who noticed the comments weren’t working, I fixed them! *

Posted: October 15th, 2007 under Opinions, Personal.
Comments: none