I don't know what it is about spring and me. It's my favourite time of year. I can be categorized as a laid back person, and I don't go out of my way to do something new and exciting every day, or to produce all sorts of wonderful pictures in no time at all. In fact, it's common for me to spend weeks if not months on a picture.

Yet...in the last two weeks I've posted three pictures here, and I still want to make more. I've always complained to friends that I rarely have any idea of pictures to make, which is why I prefer to make character portraits on request - because then there's someone telling me what they want. I can follow instruction for my pictures. I thrive on it.

I'm not going to complain, because I like being keen about Poser . But as a hobby, making these images satisfy me greatly. It's all good.

Watching Notting Hill one day and Love Actually the next day is a bad idea. A bad idea, you hear? I'm such a sap for supersweet romantic movies like those, and not in a good way. Two hours and a river of tears later, I go to bed, wishing my life was like that no matter how unrealistic that is.

I think I need to watch the Ring movies or the Saw movies to cover the heartache.

I figured I would write something else here since the last journalentry talks about spring in Norway. Well, it's November here now and anything *but* spring. It's getting cold and I feel the pressure to update my journal

I'm not a winter/snow person. I can appreciate that it's pretty and all, but it's also cold, wet, slushy, ugly when not pure white, slippery and dangerous. Unlike some people ( hello there *FeelinStrangelyFine) I don't think winter is the best season in the year .

Having said that, it's a gorgeous day today! Crisp, clear air, sun is shining...and no snow! Huzzah!

It's spring in Norway! Spring spring spring! And it makes me happy! And it makes me smile! And happy!!

Oh, and I'll get money back on the tax returns! Wheee!

Whoa, this is like a high! Too much happiness at one time *chuckles*

I use Opera as my choice of browser. In my opinion, it's superior to both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Opera is innovative, superquick, expansive and clever. Every cool feature other browsers have, Opera had first. In short, I have found my browser and I love it, much like millions of other users of this stroke of genius.

The only sad thing is that some websites have a hard time updating their pages to be compatible with Opera. Usually, it's crappy, low-end websites with bad coding and lousy updating. But sometimes...there's exceptions. Deviant Art's latest addition of full page advertisements screaming in your face before getting to the page you want to go to (god, I hate that "feature") is obviously coded so badly, it stays up, no matter how much you click the "let me past this fucking ad crap!" link. It won't go away, and you can't browse your own pages. In other words, it makes DA completely unusable if you're using the Opera browser.

This ad system is used on countless other websites, without any trace of problem. This is the only site I've visited that has this problem, so therefore it's the incompetence of the DA coders that is to blame. One could almost think it's a "clever" trick to force free members into buying an ad-free subscription.

Oh, and they're working *so* hard on it. Not.

Reply to my question to DA Support about this, dated May 9th 2006. Almost a whole fucking month, and it's obvious they knew about it before I sent my notice!

"Unfortunately this is a known issue with Opera at this time, which we;'re working as quickly as possible to resolve.

Maureen Winter
Help Desk Manager
deviantART, inc.
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Well, *Maureen*...for your information...it's not Opera that's the problem. It's the sloppy coding of this website. Perhaps you should kick some coder butt and get them to update their incompetent skills...or maybe buy a new one off eBay. I hear they're cheap.