Browser Wars Part II

Well, I now have four browsers on my system: Netscape, Opera, Konqueror and Lynx, and am finally closer to reaching a decision.
Lynx - I haven't used this for ages, but if you just want text and no irritating graphics, lynx goes like greased lightning.
Opera - its claim to be the fastest browser on the web is not true, since lynx is faster. However, that's not really fair competition. Opera does seem to be the fastest graphic browser. While this is a sizable advantage, and for many people a deciding factor, it doesn't have an awful lot else to put it ahead of the competition.
Netscape - Lots of features and plugins which I never use. If I didn't already have an email client and an HTML editor, I might consider it, but as it is, I only keep it because it's the only browser that can connect to my bank (Opera, ironically, is too secure, and rejects my bank's malformed certificate!).
Konqueror - doesn't work well with some IE/Netscape-optimised sites (may they rot in Hell) and not quite as fast as Opera, but a good all-round browser with a good feature/bloat ratio. It reads postscript and PDF files and is also my file manager, so the end result is ...

Konqueror wins the browser wars. Congratulations to the good people at KDE.

Always Coming Home

Back to England tomorrow for my father's funeral. Although it's a sad event, at the same time I'm happy to be going home. I'll see my mother, my brother and my homeland. I have never been a nationalist, but I've always been an intense regionalist, for lack of a better word. It's like "memleket" in Turkish or "Heimat" in German.

Afghan Old Glory

This is so tasteless I had to link to it. The U.S. bomb the hell out of Afghanistan, install a murderous regime of warlords and Islamic fundamentalists, then get the natives to weave flags. I love it, but I'm about to bring up my raki.