fanfuckingtastic

I notice I am swearing a lot lately. A lot more than I used to. It actually makes me a little uncomfortable, and I'm working on cutting back on the F-bombs. But dammit Jim, I'm an analyst, not a linguist, so I broke down my last blogpost and discovered the following things:

ONE:
1,222 words
16 swear words*

that means just 1.3% cussing. That doesn't seem so bad.

TWO:
I copied my last blogpost and pasted it into a Word doc to get the wordcount and GODDAMMIT IE8 SUCKS ASS for not having a spellcheck function. Hello, it's a 2009 product, who keeps cutting this goddamned feature? Why do I have to write my blog in Word so I can have a spellcheck feature and then copy it into the browser? I can't possibly be the only person generating content on the web.

Workaround: Use FireFox. *sigh* I just wish FF didn't crash so damn often.

~Elphie


*douchebag not counted as swearing


(this blogpost contains 3% cussing)

Oh DOJ, what have you done?

Remember the time when the internet was no holds barred, take no prisoners competitive? A time when dot.coms flourished or failed, when pets had a place to shop (because pets can't drive!), and 10 foot tall e's were left on Netscape's front lawn to help motivate their employees to develop the best browser they could?

Alas, we are in a kinder, gentler era now. The IE team sends Mozilla a cake to congratulate them on the relase of Firefox 2. A cake. How is such friendly competition supposed to instill indignant anger in the FF development team? This must be a brilliant tactic by the borg to demotivate Mozilla employees by disarming them with kindness... that's just as plausible as there being a message in the sequence of the black/white frosting blobs...

I say to you Mozilla developers, rise up in your cubicles and shout in anger at those Redmond rascals who only coughed up the budget to send you a quarter sheet cake that will only feed a small fraction of your numbers. They didn't even send ice cream. What good is cake without ice cream?!? By the gods, the only thing more insulting would have been if they'd sent you a dozen cupcakes. Get back to your keyboards and code with the fury of those who have been scorned!

hahahahaha
~Elphie

cake photo source: http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/

IE7 Released today

go download it, fool.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

~Elphie

IE interview

Window Snyder of Matasano posted an interview of IE Lead Program Manager Christopher Vaughan on their blog today - its a worthwhile read, so I'm not going to bother paraphrasing. Check it out yourself!

~Elphie

Microsoft's New Public Bug Database

Yes, you read that correctly.

Microsoft creates public bug database for IE
"Many customers have asked us about having a better way to enter IE bugs. It is asked, 'Why don't you have Bugzilla like Firefox or other groups do?' We haven't always had a good answer, except it is something that the IE team has never done before," Al Billings, a member of the IE project team, wrote in a Microsoft blog Friday.

"After much discussion in the team, we've decided that people are right and that we should have a public way for people to give us feedback or make product suggestions," he wrote.

If you have a violent allergic reaction to all things Microsoft, you'll be able to find something snarky to say about this. IMHO, it is nice to see the old dog learn a new trick. Bash their intentions, make fun of them for following instead of innovating, but at least give them credit for opening their minds to learn from the outside world and finding a way to do something that a year ago was so totally counter to their philosophy it appeared impossible.

~Elphie