Now, the pressure and expectations are hard enough to cope with and Rodgers handles it extremely well, but constantly being compared to what may well be the best QB ever in the history of NFL is downright unfair and totally illogical.

Watching Favre play football was like watching an artist creating a master-piece; art in real-time. Extending that analogy further, who would you prefer to see painting a Picasso — Picasso or Kvium? Rodgers is taking over after Favre and he is not supposed to be Favre or even play like Favre. Even though it is tempting to think, “Favre would have converted that 1st and 33″, I don’t think that is the way to look at it. Sure, Favre would probably have been more likely to convert it; more likely than any other QB in the entire league!

From what I saw Rodgers deliver tonight against Minnesota Vikings, it seems that he has definitely learned a lot from Favre, but also sets himself aside from Favre in that he is willing to actually run the ball if there are no open receivers or simply if the opportunity presents itself and seems viable. Favre’s influence was definitely visible at his first touchdown pass, which was great to see — there is nothing wrong with learning from the best — but I was relieved to find that he was not trying to be Favre or play like him.

The Packers have a great QB in Rodgers and it was nice to see that they had enough confidence in him to line up with 4 receivers, leaving Rodgers somewhat more vulnerable to a sack (of which they gave up exactly zero mostly thanks to the defensive line-men). Leading the Pack to a 24–19 victory over division rivals Vikings (in spite of 118 penalty yards against them) is a pretty impressive beginning and I am confident that Rodgers and the rest of the team can take on the rest of NFC North and make the playoffs. One thing though… If I was Rodgers, I would practice that Lambeau Leap some more, I am sure it will not be in vain.

Effectively this means that all combinations from alt-1 – alt-9 are useless, which means that the following characters can’t be written in Firefox 3 on OS X with a danish keyboard layout: ¡, “, §, £, ∞, ™, ¶, [ and ]. I find it especially troublesome that the hard brackets doesn’t work, since they’re extensibly used in BBTags, as replacements for < and > when writing HTML examples in a place that doesn’t handle < and > well, it’s used as scope delimiter in Functional Grammar notation and in a ton of other places.

I’ve scoured the web for a solution (as well as about:config) but to no avail.

Now, I’m pretty sure that they’re not trying to rip me off or anything like that, but it’s still a major pain in the ass that they’re so slow and so bad at communicating with their customers. If anyone knows some way of pressuring them into hurrying up, please let me know — I’m getting somewhat impatient here.

Jesper finished his song (The Devil) in, like, 1 week(!), so I guess it’s about time I finished mine. Sorry for the delay, Jesper.

Update (June 19, 2008, 19:10): There were a couple of mixing and compression related problems with the track, so a new (and better) version has been uploaded. If you’ve downloaded the song before this update please re-download it and enjoy even more!

allocinit has a more comprehensive list of blocked sub-strings and now you can add at least “youtube\.com” to it. Has anybody tested if links to Google Video gets through?

Now, this is just one reason that I don’t use MSN more than what is absolutely necessary…

UPDATE (May 12, 2008): I’ve tossed Adium into the trash can on my dock and am no longer using MSN. Try Google Talk instead, if you want to reach me via IM. It may not be open source or that far from MSN, but at least they don’t censor one’s messages and it’s based on Jabber (at least the protocol is open), so pretty much any Jabber client will work with it, hence everyone can join in without relying on a reverse engineered protocol. My Google Talk name is: lillesvin@gmail.com.

(Update: Had to rename the post, as the ‘?’ seemed to mess up some RSS aggregators.)

In case you own a DS and is NOT playing Contact (which would be wrong — wrong, I tells ya!), check it out! I picked up a pre-owned copy for $30. It’s jam-packed with weird geeky references (like “I wish a base like this belonged to us.” and “It’s Rizo Island. Riiiiiizo Island!!!“) and on top of that it’s a great RPG with a perfect mix of retro-elements and completely new stuff. Go, go, go!