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Question: “Why haven’t we found the remains of a bigfoot that died of natural causes?”
Answer: “No serious work has ever been done to look for remains of surviving wood apes in areas where they are rumored to reside. No one should expect remains of such an elusive species to be found, collected and identified without some effort.”
Hmph. Sounds like an excuse to me.
Bet you didn’t know that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (1) exists and (2) has a website.
When something has already happened, physician and has, in fact, been documented, it is no longer a rumor.
That is all.
I’ve reconstructed my top ten lists from my old site. They weren’t part of the weblog, technically; I just wrote them by hand and duplicated the template. That’s why they kind of disappeared when I switched over to Movable Type. Anyway, they can be seen here. Enjoy! I’m still working on moving over my old articles and photo albums.
Well, I guess everyone saw this coming. Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s announcement that there will be no more standalone versions of Internet Explorer for Windows, Roz Ho, general manager of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, has confirmed that Microsoft will no longer be developing Internet Explorer for the Mac. As of about three years ago, apparently, since that’s how long it’s been since a major update to the once best-of-breed browser.
I love the reasoning they give: “Some of the key customer requests for web browsing on the Mac require close development between the browser and the OS, something to which only Apple has access…” Wow! Irony level: a perfect 10. But then, Microsoft has really been doing well in the irony department lately.
On a related note, Jimmy Grewal, who was the MacBU’s lead developer on Internet Explorer, has left the company: “With the end of development of Mac Internet Explorer, I will be leaving Microsoft and moving on to pursue other interests back in Dubai.”
No word yet on when Microsoft will abandon Office for the Mac, but I have hunch they won’t be able to do so until Apple has its own office suite.
But it’s very likely that by then, Apple will come out with something so nice that we’ll all be happy to let go of the products that Microsoft has given us. Kinda like how I feel about Safari and Internet Explorer right now.
In its day, Mac IE was really something. At one time, it was the most standards-compliant browser you could get, and it blew its Windows brethren out of the water. But time passes, and things change. I stopped using IE for regular browsing about a year ago. I became quite annoyed at its insistence on rendering some or all of certain web sites as plain white boxes. Usually refreshing did the trick, but still. It was annoying. Quite annoying.
So I switched to Mozilla when it hit one-point-oh. I stuck with that for a few months, and while it did a great job rendering, its interface was, for lack of a better term, piss poor. Granted, the Mozilla team was making a cross-platform browser, but there’s something to be said for native widgets. And it was a bit slow. In the same way that a glacier is a bit slow.
Enter Chimera, the browser that OS X was yearning for. It was fast, it used Gecko, and it was made by Mac guys. Sweet. Crashy, but sweet.
And then Safari came. And I haven’t looked back since. Safari is, bar none, the best browser out there. The interface is stunning, as is the speed, and Dave Hyatt’s openness with regard to its development is nothing short of remarkable. Of course, there are those that try to take advantage of this, and that’s a shame.
But these days, I use IE only for testing sites.
Gregory Peck has passed away at the age of 87. From the article: He had just been getting older and more fragile. He wasn’t really ill. He just sort of ran his course and died of old age.
I loved the film To Kill A Mockingbird. I always thought “Atticus Finch” would be a cool name for a band, too.
Gruber on why TrackBack sucks. David, you need to read this. He’s right. He’s so right that even Winer agrees with him. 🙂
And Mark Pilgrim writes about the safe consumption of RSS.
Time to go check the weather report for Hades. Quark 6 will be out next week.
Nora Doyle, writing for the King County Journal in Washington: Some Foster High School teachers are balking at the idea that the school board could refuse to let them accept $43,000 worth of new computers the school was recently awarded through a grant program…
But according to the school technology plan created in 2000, Tukwila schools will move toward using only personal computers, not the Macintosh, for financial reasons, Superintendent Michael Silver said…
About two years ago, the school was the winner of a $427,000 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant…
That’s funny. The school’s web site has a big apple on the front page.
Then watch this (QuickTime required). This had Jen and me (and other 30-year-olds I know) in stitches. It’s the ending to every 80s movie you’ve ever seen. David didn’t get it at first.