Today started like any other, power up the computer, grab a cup a coffee and head on over to the DailyKos to find out what happened while I was sleeping.
Then some weird shit started to happen. Strange Internet pages started popping up, I couldn't get my e-mail and Internet Explorer 6.0 started crashing. Ok, IE crashing is not all that unusual, but the pop-ups were freaking me out. I assumed that I had somehow obtained a virus and my machine was about to crash! So I ran a complete scan, nothing found, but strange shit keeps on happening!
What to do? What to do?
Let's see, all software is up to date? Check! Have latest virus definitions? Check! Why is this junk popping up on my machine? Must have a major problem with IE 6.0! Seems I heard something about Internet Explorer 7.0 being out there in a beta version. Maybe, if IE 6.0 will keep running long enough, I can download and install 7.0 and all of this will be behind me! And that's when things became really strange!!
It took at least 10 tries and about 4 hours to download the new version, but I finally succeeded! Started it up for the first time and it immediately crashed. Ran virus scan again! No threats detected! This is weird! So I kept trying to work with version 7.0. I discovered there are lots of changes, can't seem to find the button for my favorites folder. The Yahoo toolbar doesn't work with version 7.0, need to download a new Yahoo toolbar. Finally found the favorites button, but now I can't find the refresh button!
I started wondering why I did this to myself but the more I messed around with 7.0, the more stable it seemed to become. Now that is really strange!! But then it became much worse!!
After about 6 hours, I was back to where I was when I turned the computer on this morning. In fact, there was some cold coffee still sitting in the cup! So let's see, where was I? Oh yeah, let's go check out the Daily Kos and see what happened last night while I was asleep and what happened while I have been fighting with my computer.
The orange banner for DailyKos came up, everything was looking great, there was the front page, recommended diaries on the right, version 7.0 automatically logged me in (this part had me worried since I don't remember what my password is), and the page loaded.
Let's see, what to read first? Hey Bob Johnson has diary at the top of the recommend list! Wow!! It has more than 1000 comments! Might as well start here!
And that's when I discovered that Internet Explorer has some really severe bugs! I couldn't believe what I was reading! The tags are even there, "Best President Ever" WTF? And, no snark tag to be found anywhere!! Where am I? And then the comments! There are all my friends, my fellow Kossack's posting some of the most ridiculous shit I have ever seen! Comments about how great George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Condi Rice are! I keep thinking this can't be happening, has Microsoft been bought off by the White House? Has Microsoft intentionally made DailyKos look like Red state? Do they have some kind of GW Bush diary and comment translator plug-in installed?
But it became even worse!! I scanned the other recommended diaries! WTF??!! "Welcome Fox News Viewers"?? Holy shit!!! Something is seriously wrong!! How do I get back to the truth? What happened to my fellow Kossack's? Have they all been abducted or did I die last night and I'm now living in some parallel universe?
I'm not sure what happened, but I just wanted to warn all of you! Don't install Internet Explorer 7.0!!!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to figure out how to get this severely flawed software off my machine!! Hopefully, when I get back everything will be back to normal!!!