So Green Day is running around masquerading as this band called Foxboro Hot Tubs. Good for them. Blink 182 did it, why can’t they? (Interesting… Foxboro… Box Car… whatever)

As a pleasant surprise, you can download their CD off their website and it is even in DRM-Free MP3 format. It’s encoded at 320k bit rate no less! I applaud their decision and figured I would put my money where my mouth is and reward them with my support.

That’s where the nightmare begins. Apparently, they partnered with this service called Neurotic Media. Clicking on “buy cd” takes you to a second website, foxborohottubsdownload.com, which I assume is pointed at NM’s servers. The checkout process feels like something from 1998 and asks for information not required for checkout like my date of birth. Well, what the heck, I love Green Day, like the songs I’ve heard so far, let’s do it.

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There is a fatal flaw in the Macbook Pros. Delete, PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End are two-key, key-strokes. How can you just leave off these keys?

Am I the last person on the planet that still uses them?

The worst part of this mistake is that not a single cursed application on OS X uses the same keystrokes to perform those functions. For example:

In Safari, to page down, you use Option+DownArrow. To go the end of the document, you use Cmd+DownArrow.

In XCode, there IS NO shortcut for page down. WTF?