Why Internet Exploder Sucks Ass
There was a time when I thought that Internet Explorer was the best web browser available despite Microsoft's influence. I'm glad to say that it now blows goats. This honor of best browser now safely goes to Mozilla's Firebird browser. (Mozilla is nice too but I like Firebird's small fingerprint.) Don't believe me? You have to try it for yourself.
Here's why Firebird beats the pants out of IE:
Tabbed browsing. Once you start, you'll never go back.
Built in pop-up window blocking. Why pay $30 when it's built into the browser?
This one is of a personal nature. Firebird correctly displays the comments page on this web log. IE doesn't.
Spyware. When I was running IE, Ad-aware routinely detected 20 new spyware programs per day. Running Firebird, that number goes to 0. You don't have to understand limits to like that. (If you've been using Internet Explorer or Kazaa be sure to download and run Ad-aware right away. You're not going to like what it finds . . .)
This is a minor one but Firebird correctly displays a web page's icon in the address bar. When will Microsoft fix this? Never comes to mind . . .
View selection source. Programmers rejoice!
All text (even those with fixed pixel sizes) can be zoomed in on.
CSS generated content. Excuse me while I shout, "Yeaaaah!" a few times and run around the room.
Themes. Make your browser as pretty as you'd like.
Giant lizards are cool. A big spinning "e" is not. It reminds me of those stupid unstable e's from French class.
So do yourself a big favor and switch browsers. Or at least try it for a few days and see what you think. Still don't trust me? Then check out this and this.
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Just What the World Doesn't Need . . .
Going against everything that phooeyhoo.com believes in, we're jumping on the blogging wagon. Obviously, this can only lead to (a) death, (b) death, or (c) a combination thereof. But as Blog pointed out to me, we live in a strange world where soon every man, woman, and pet on the planet will have one.
Then the words of Dusty Baker came to us: "Why not us?" We have to heed Dusty because even though he didn't take us to the promised land, he took us five outs away from it.
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First Post
The very first post. Ha! You win again, gravity!
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