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WinZip vs. Filzip

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April 11, 2005

Over the past I don’t know how long, I have been using Filzip – only. I stopped using Winzip a few years ago when I found it wouldn’t open .tar files – and Filzip would. And Winzip was always bugging you for money and Filzip didn’t.

So I was downloading some plugins from //Gamerz’ site and it seemed like every time I tried to unzip them there was a problem with them. While reading comments on his site, I didn’t find any comments that said they had a problem with the download, so I installed Winzip. The downloads now unzip fine. So I don’t know what the hell is up with that.

Anyway, it enabled me to put back some plugins that I liked. So there. I may end up buying it because it said it was good for 21 days (evaluation model doncha know). We’ll see.

I did end up donating some money yesterday for a freeware program that I’ve got – Spybot Search & Destroy. I don’t often “donate” but the program is good. Sometimes it finds some stinking spyware that the two other programs I have, don’t find – and I paid for those. So I thought, “WTF”. Let’s give this guy some money – I certainly don’t need it.

I had a not bad day today although with all this plugin work, I haven’t even washed my face yet. Yes, I washed it this morning, I don’t mean that ‘yet’.

My son stopped by yesterday because of the TTC strike. With no transit he was gonna borrow my bike to get to work. He works 2 hours away from where he lives. The lucky thing though is that the strike was called off, they reached some agreement, and so I didn’t have to drive to work, and he didn’t have to bike it.

Christ, I don’t even work 2 hours away from home and I can’t imagine biking it. He was gonna take the bike anyway and headed off home, only to come back 20 minutes later cuz one of the pedals came off. Lucky for him he wasn’t halfway home or something, stuck with a bike he couldn’t ride. My honey will have to see if he can fix that. I’m not a bike fixer upper person.

I got some cheque from the government for $141 – I don’t know what it’s for and they never want to tell me, so I just cashed it. It’s my spending money this week. If I can stick to that I will have made it through the week with money left in my bank account – no overdraft *woohoo*.

More good news… I found the receipt for that new printer I bought. I couldn’t find it and there’s the $60 rebate. So I found it today – the rebate ends tomorrow – so I spent $7 to have Canada Post deliver it next day. So I’ll still score $50, good for me. For a while I thought I’d mistakenly given the receipt to the girl at work, thinking that I had work receipts on me. Stupid me, I ended up putting it away where I put the cards away, instead of where I put the receipts away.

So now my honey’s gonna go and top up the groceries, we’re out of salad and celery and other crap that I take with me for lunch. And I’m gonna go wash my face. Perhaps I’ll peruse the television and see if I fluke into something that we watch but have forgotten that we watch. Aging = cruelty.

WTF?

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