w00t!

I got a raise! Go me!

(it's not a huge raise, but go me, anyway)

more aer lingus stupidity

Past woes documented elsewhere. Just now I tried to log into their site using my soon-to-expire frequent flyer card. For most of my attempts I got a screen telling me that my session had timed out, even when I tried from a brand new clean installation of Konqueror on an entirely different machine. On the one occasion when I did make it past this stupidity, they appeared to have already flushed all my details out of the membership data. What a complete shower of...

more whining

If you were to judge by what I'm posting here, I've really been cranky the last few days... right now, and in fact for the last half-hour, Mozilla has been catatonic from a UI perspective. Because I pressed the "Remove All Cookie Sites" button on the utterly useless cookie manager. Now, because I'm an inquisitive soul, I ran strace against it to see what it was up to. As best I can tell, it's deleting the cookie sites one at a time and doing some sort of heavy processing between each delete. Since I had a 20-24k cookie permissions file, and each line is about 50 or so characters, it has been counting slowly backwards from 24000 in fifties for the last half hour. No indication onscreen of what it's up to, no way to interrupt the process.