i recently downloaded over 50 ebooks on CSS, XHTML, Photoshop cs3 and so on... basically anything that will help me learn web design. because of tight funds, i've been forced to skip one term of school and won't be back in action until the end of October, so i decided to take up another hobby.

if anyone has any suggestion on books or sites with information, i'd appreciate it. :)

aside from that, i've switched back to Firefox from Chrome for a few reasons... one of them being that i felt Firefox to be a tad faster for my purposes. so to celebrate my return to firefox, i gave the browser a small makeover.
( nude pics of my Firefox browser )
does yours look similar? or are you using something else for surfing? if so, see this site.

also in other news...

EA has announced that it will be relaxing its three-install policy and constant phone-home authentication system; however, the move by EA seems to be a little too late. the game’s title has developed such negative stigma among gamers that any action short of removing DRM completely will not likely help curtail naysayers.

EA Relaxes Rules on Installing 'Spore' (article @ thewallstreetjournal.com)