Blogging this now for future reference in case I ever have to deal with this particular PS quirk again.

The direct link for the discussion is over here, but seeing as message boards are ephermal, if you’re running Windows XP and PS decides it just doesn’t want to initalize, try this solution:

It seems that the ‘Preferences’ file can become ‘corrupted’ if you have more than one version of Photoshop running (and under other circumstances) and the solution is to delete the preferences file.
This can be achieved by holding down the ‘Ctl-Alt-Shift’ keys when starting PS CS and then replying ‘yes’ to the prompt.
Seems to work fine now except got to set up preferences again!

And in that vein, if you’ve installed fonts and Photoshop decides that it doesn’t want to acknowledge their existence, the solution’s over here. (Adobe’s support knowledgebase, so I have more faith in the permanance of the link.)

“The most dishonest president since Nixon”

Yes, in spite of alreday reading Troy in 15 minutes. Or maybe because of it. Because I was depressed, and wanted to look at teh pretty. And there was quite enough of it to go ’round. I can ignore the plot through a blender treatment because hello? It’s a hollywood movie. When I get a hankering for a faithful adaption of anything I’ll go to PBS or A&E. Or maybe the history channel. But hollywood gives good pretty.

I’m adding Sean Bean to my list of sexy guys with really sexy voices.

Yes, I wish they hadn’t chickened out re: the great gay love that is Achillies and Patroclus, but really, was not expecting anything different. I don’t care how sexy and sensitive they re-wrote him to be, (I amy not be a huge Brad Pitt fan, but there was some serious sexy going on there.) he’ll always be my favorite psycho bisexual godspawn.

The women… aren’t actually *there* much, so not much to say, other than that they too, were much the pretty.