Lol... Cats in space!


YouTube - Weightless Cats - I Can Has Gravity?

Sweet! I want one... to send to somebody of course...

On the surface this might sound to some people like a good idea... and certainly the idea of ISP's alerting you when there is a bot on your machine is good. But involving FEDGOV?

FEDGOV and social programs is like the old saying from some chip company... 'Bet ya can't eat just one!'

The EyeWriter

I have been making and porting skins for NucleusCMS so I decided some time a go to make a site for them. Now the first one is released. It is a port of a free Word Press theme. See it at WillyP's NucleusCMS Skin Site.

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment Cool experiment with HTML5 and Canvas... The little pic above doesn't do this justice. Go see it. This is the future!

I was a little surprised to see these stats (January 2010) for my wife's blog:

Ok... who hitting Shirley's blog with IE6? My wife uses Firefox... it's not her! I guess someone didn't get the message... Friends don't let friends use IE6!

http://shirlsworld.net

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Modern browsers for modern applications

Hey, it's time... or is it? On one hand, IE6's shortcomings are well known. It is time... well past time, in fact... for people to drop IE6 for a modern browser. But the fact still remains that a significant number of people still use IE6 for one reason or another.

Two schools though on this issue: one, that people do use IE6, whether by choice or whatever reason, and we don't want to push them away from our sites, or two, that IE6 sucks to accommodate and if we drop support for IE6 less people will continue to use IE6. For my sites I have found, for January 2010, IE6 usage varies from just under 5% to just over 9%. Worldwide usage has been recently reported at 15%. Personally, I think in shades, not a yes or no sorta thing. That is to say, I will continue to test in IE6, but while I won't spend a lot of time fixing minor visual anomalies for IE6, I will make sure it looks decent, and everything is functional.

Yes, it is high time to drop IE6, but not everybody can.

 

Remember, friends don't let friends use IE6.

France and Germany call for the end of IE6 - The Web Standards Project As should we all. You probably know someone who is still using IE6. Talk to them. Inform them of how much IE6 sucks compared to modern browsers, whether you prefer a great browser like Firefox of prefer to stick with mediocrity like IE8. At least, if nothing else, make sure they are aware that Microsoft has finally released a patch to address some of the security flaws present in IE6. Tell them, if they insist on remaining in the dark ages with IE6, that this patch is a result of the Google hacking, and Microsoft would not have done anything if such a well publicized breach had not occurred. An that, while this patch will protect them from this particular vulnerability, IE6 is still, and will remain, a flawed browser. Friends don't let friends use IE6.