I’m 35 today.

35 always seemed like an important age to me, though I can never know why. Since I was in my twenties I had always thought that people aged 35 were of a different generation than people my age, of those even aged 33 and 34. And last week when I was filling out questionnaires for RMIT’s evaluation campaign I noticed that I only had one week left when I could check the “age: 25-34″ box.

Now I’m 35 I have the right to shake my head and mumble “tch tch, young people these days…” whenever I feel like it. I spent my afternoon shopping for clothes, but now that I am a 35 year-old dad I have the right to wear the same old brown cardigan (and I have two now) for the next forty years or so, just like my old man (who turned 69 just two days ago, and misses his old blue blazer).

Best of all, I am now allowed to not like change. So today I decided not to use Mozilla Firefox anymore, but go back to the old IE. I know I know, but hey, if you’re going to be a slave to a software giant, you might as well be a slave to the biggest one, right?

This aint no plug for IE. I can’t stand the fact that Microsoft has got its controlling paws over everything. I don’t want to use another web browser for the simple fact that IE places cookies and cache things in one folder, while other web browsers make other folders for those things, and I like to know where those things are.

And I’ve just downloaded IE 7 beta and I have to say, it’s Firefox under a different name. Yep, Microsoft took everything Mozilla had to offer, stole it and packaged it for their own - the tabs, the RSS aggregator, even the design.

They’re bastards I know. But I’m old and better the devil.