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I've stopped halfway from the northernmost coast to the Berkeley Hills in order to have a visit with my parents. This unerringly means long hours debugging my mom's PC. The most appalling messes in all of tubedom can be found right here. I have enjoyed many successes against the fuckers in my first few days here, but, let's face it, you can never achieve absolute victory unless you just BUY A MAC. This would involve the expenditure of money on something besides horses though... and, well, far better to drive her daughter into the lunatic asylum than entertain that notion. I'm telling you, you have no idea how much peace and serenity, not to mention aesthetics, your attempt to save a few bucks has cost you. Discovery: if you switch to a Mac-like theme for Mozilla Firefox, it actually improves the look of the sites you visit and not just the window from which you view them... not good enough, but much better.