If you're a Firefox and Greasemonkey fan, as I am, and you like the old LJ, you will love this tremendously useful script, Instant Comment. With this script, you can enter your witty comments in a pop-up box, instead of having to leave your Friends page, click back to return, etc. Yippee! I love it.

So I'm not 100% as enthusiastic about buying a Mac as I used to be. Although in theory it would be fun to have a shiny new package to play with, the reality of formatting my stuff to work with the Mac is nerve-wracking. Also, I'm not totally confident that I will be able to share files with Hubby's PC's and the Mac. I was printing out a photo this morning, and I suggested to Hubby that we move all of our digital photos to one network drive for safety's sake. I fear that my PC's hard drive is dying, so I'd like to offload them somewhere safe. And it'd be great for us to centralize all of our pictures.

It occurs to me that that would be a good solution for our music files too. Then we could just point our iTunes libraries to the network drive. I'm just nervous that I wouldn't be able to do that if I had a Mac.

Hubby is now interested in buying a laptop, as am I. He doesn't travel for work that often, but when he does he really wishes he had a decent laptop. For meetings, he could update his own reports and presentations. When he's in the hotel, he could play games or watch movies. He was pricing Core Duo laptops on Newegg.com. Pickings are still slim, but you can get a really packed one for much less than a Macbook Pro.

I have to start reading the PC magazines again and find some hands-on reviews of the Core Duo laptops. Apparently there may be a Microsoft issue that drains the batteries on the Core Duos. I will not be traveling with the laptop, but I'd be happier if I could wait till any Microsoft/Core Duo issue was resolved. And maybe Microsoft Vista will be much better.

And maybe proverbial monkeys will fly out of my proverbial keister.