Loading ...I completely forgot I had an appointment with the therapist today. I was too busy writing. I guess writers would understand this excuse. And people who know me well would understand this excuse. Might not go over too well with the therapist though.
That said, i got a big chunk of Chapter 7 completed, and notes finished for Chapter 8.
Carolynn Duncan over at the Carolynn blog has been writing about why she won’t switch from IE to FireFox. I appreciate her honesty on the subject, and really, her excuse is the ONLY acceptable excuse I can think of - stubbornness, ignorance, fear of the unknown, and the fact that the blue E icon is easier to find.
Commenter Kory Hoopes pointed out:
Tsk tsk Carolynn… The problem lies with IE (both 6 and 7) not interpreting the internet according to the web standards that have been set to ensure a proper web viewing experience.
What’ve I been saying here? And WHY won’t IE get with the program? Here’s why - because Microsoft wants to BE the program. Microsoft wants to own the internet. Well take back the internet, people. Use ANY other browser than IE.
Bas points out that 95% of Dutch surfers use IE. Well pardon me but if 95% of the dutch jumped off a bridge, would you do the same? If 95% of the dutch set their genitals on fire, would you think its a good idea? And lets face it, the Dutch, god bless’em, they’re a bit resistant to change. That whole free-wheeling society they got over there in the Netherlands is just some kind of ruse. Just look at what happened to the Dutch who came to america. Still living in the 19th Century. Don’t you think that if the Amish didn’t consider computers a tool of Satan, that they’d be using IE?
I do agree with one thing Bas said:
If anything it would be time to consider a redraw of the entire web based browsing. But as HTML originated from the science world and has now been eaten by commerce.. Little chance of that happening soon.
I definitely think there are better potential models for exchange of information than the web-based one. But like he says, the consumerist culture has a firm footing in the web now and isn’t likely to let go. But we’ll see - the little guys often come up with some amazing stuff. And it may have been science who invented the web, and the capitalists who made it big business, but its us little guys who make it fun, diverse, and creative.
Ah yes, Carolynn also called me a “he”, but I guess its an easy enough mistake to make. I swear a lot and share a name with a famous revolutionary. But its not quite true that I prefer people to view my site through firefox. I prefer my site to be viewed through just about anything but IE. Its all back to that web-standards compliance thing. And maybe, as Bas says, 99% of sites are viewable through IE, but mine is in the 1% that isn’t and thats what matters to me.
From the comments on Carolynn’s site, it sounds to me like she’s beginning to reconsider her IE choice. Good luck, Carolynn, I’m sure you’ll come to the right (firefox) decision.
As for the rest of you, soon, very soon, IE users who come to this site will be redirected here.
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He,he.. It could be argued that the dutch fleeing the turmoils of an ever changing mainstream society got stuck in their own history.
Same could be argued here for browser users.
Actually I have a lot of respect for the Amish, folks who can live simpler lives. And you know, whenever Windows crashes, I often long for simpler days, and wonder if the Amish aren’t right for thinking that computers are the tool of Satan.
But I figure two weeks of writing with a quill by candlelight would have me pleading with Bill Gates to let me come home.
Che,
Just wanted to update you on the firefox saga…
http://www.carolynnduncan.com/2006/09/07/give-it-up-for-sneaky-tech-tricks/
Leave me a sneaky tech trick or two, if you like!
Another convert to Firefox. IE loses another stalwart!
What will Bill Gates do?
Actually he’ll hand over the day to day operation of his company to someone else so they can oversee the shrinking market share and reinvent himself as a philanthropic dispenser of funds to poor school children.
I read a report on ways to motivate students to stay in school from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Their recommendation? Making dropping out a crime.
I’m not making that up.
But this was about Carolynn, not Bill and Melinda Gates.
Way to see the light!
Been meaning to get over to carolynns blog to leave a sneaky tech trick or two (and to read the other posts to see if anyone’s left a sneaky tech trick I don’t know about) but today’s been a slow day for me.
I got half of J’s reading done, said a mala to clear my head, and passed out in the middle of it.
But I do want to congratulate Carolynn on making the switch. Now if we could only convince BAS.
Another plus of Firefox? It’s open source and has about 100 features that are way cooler than IE. BTW, your site looks even better in Safari than it does in Firefox! Safari is a Mac browser, though, so for PC fans, I think the best is definitely Firefox: “10% is not enough! recruit! recruit! recruit!”… Sorry, reliving my gay pride days. That’s about all I remember about it besides body glitter.
I’m actually a pretty big fan of SeaMonkey, but maybe that goes back to the days of my childhood, when I was thrilled to be growing little monkeys in my aquarium. You know, they never looked the same in the aquarium as they did in the adverts.
J the Only, the words “pride” and “body-glitter” really don’t belong in the same paragraph.
I like how J the Only has become all J-Lo on us and is now taking to calling himself JtO.
I also grew sea-monkeys. They looked like water lice. Hey kids, water lice!
Well I knew there was something frightening going on when J-To mentioned the body-glitter.
Water-lice. Minutes of fun for the whole family, or at least for the crazy cousin you keep locked in the attic.
Tramadol….
Tramadol….