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So I wanted to purchase Adobe's Creative Suite 3 Web Premium... I decided to wait an extra week because I had some money to pay on my credit card and just wanted to take care of that before making another large purchase, it wasn't that big of a deal, and any money not used in paying off the credit card would have gone into the bank. Well, my luck doesn't seem to be all that wonderful. As you may know, I also just bought the Apple iPod and iPod+Nike kit, so add that into this equation...but I went out to a local fair (socializing, awesome!) which cost me a pretty penny by itself; just like going to the movies, if you're going to enjoy it you already know you're going to pay a premium.

Well, I ended up losing my cellphone on one of the rides. Granted, the rides were pretty awesome, but not quite $300 awesome (original retail value of the phone). At least it's only something physical that can be replaced so I didn't let it ruin my evening, but man... So I drive out the next morning, cancel my old phone and buy a new one while upgrading my contract to get a (small) discount. I was going to extend the contract anyway. If you're curious, I use AT&T Wireless, and no, I didn't buy an iPhone. I like the slim-line design of my phone, so I bought an upgraded model of what I already had, I now have a Charcoal-Silver Moto RAZR V3xx.

Okay, I can still deal with the monetary blow, I think... Wait, wait...what's this? MY CAR WON'T START! Hmmm, I didn't leave the headlights or any other lights on...it was fine this morning... Here's what happened: the plastic surrounding the positive side of the battery terminal (including the batter terminal) broke away from the battery itself. There was battery acid leaking in my battery compartment and I didn't even know it. Because of the broken piece and corrosion, the terminals couldn't make a connection. As silly as it was, the battery still had juice and was good to go...if it could make a connection. So that was yet another cost in a new car battery.

...I think it'll be another 6 weeks before I can purchase my Adobe Suite. :(

I'm about to make a large software purchase in the form of Adobe's Creative Suite 3 Web Premium. Adobe is selling it for $1,599 US. Amazon is selling it for $1,553 (a total savings of 3%, plus free shipping). I've heard that Adobe's online store is horrible, but purchasing directly from the manufacturer, I'd presume I'd be certain to get the box, any paper manuals, wrapping, etc. that is supposed to come with it. Purchasing from a 3rd party (even Amazon) - sometimes the fine print is accidentally left out - I might get a partial product (such as some online stores selling the upsell version, which I cannot use as I still am using Photoshop v5 at home - too old for an upgrade/upsell purchase, and I don't think my academic version of Flash will suffice).

Does anyone have any opinions on the matter? I trust Amazon. I don't trust myself at buying the right product, but with Alex King's problem with Adobe's store, I'm not sure if I should even trust Adobe. What would you do?

...my work discount is negligible.

If anyone's had any troubles with the text appearing in their versions of Safari 3 for Windows, make sure to update to the most recent version (3.0.2). It has now fixed the troubles I've had on both my work PC and personal laptop - neither of them would display the text. I am now able to properly browse the internet (I couldn't even type anything into the address bar before); and read the text on those pages. Absolutely wonderful! The Beta is now a workable one. The Apple team seems to have been working on this quite hastily, but doing a decent job. This'll probably be about the only product of theirs that I'll ever be using purposefully on a Windows machine (although, to be fair, it'll probably be just for testing!) except for QuickTime when I have to.

For a long time I've wanted to start using Subversion. I see all the benefits of using such a system, but I haven't taken the time to learn it. I've installed it (v1.3.2) a long time ago, but I never really did anything with it -- it was simply so I could interact with SmartSVN (a SVN client) to download others' repositories. I think it's about time I start using it in a more meaningful way on my own projects. In order to do this, I thought it would be best to start from scratch (and therefore uninstalled all previous, remotely related software). (For further learning on SVN, please visit Red-Bean's SVN Book online.)

So, it had been so long since I've done anything with Subversion, where was I to begin? I've read about all the great and wonderful things SVN can offer, but...how do I get it, how do I install it, and then how can I access it?

Crimson Editor is my favorite text editor for more than a few reasons, which I'll spare you with the details for; we all have our own preferences. Anyhow...

I was looking for a screenshot or documentation on how to integrate a compiler or external executable with CrimsonEditor as an example to clarify something, and I noticed that Emerald Editor was linked to from the main page of CrimsonEditor's website...that meant that Ingyu Kang was still around... It also made me wonder why EE was linked, so I went to the link.

On the main news page of Emerald Editor, the team leader announced that Ingyu Kang gave the EE team the source code to Crimson Editor to work from. The EE team decided to release it publically through Subversion. I know there's more than a few tweaks I've wanted to make to this editor (such as better regex support)!

It's written in C++ for those who wanted to know. It's also a Win32 application (sorry *nix guys). It could probably get ported though.

http://www.emeraldeditor.com/