I usually don’t get annoyed about browsers, but the IE family strikes a nerve.
Yesterday I tried to view my site at school with IE 5.0. That’s a thing I don’t like about my school’s computer policies. We have 166/233 MHz boxes on 800×600, instead of something better. Anyway, I fired up “Internet”, pressed ESC, F6 and then typed my address into the URL bar. What was shown to my very eyes? Crap!
What was wrong? All the backgrounds on heading disappeared. All padding on links disappeared. Auto-aligning a box to get it centered failed. What happened to the specs? What happened to implementation making sense?
Or, of course, my school could update their browsers, to something like Firefox. It’d make school a better place to learn.
P.S.: Fuck IE 5 ;)
I’ve had it with the Netherlands. As it now is, we are divided. Holland has polarised more than ever. Muslim extremists kill famous people, White Power-fanboys burn down Turkish schools and booby traps are being built into houses. What is wrong with us?
It all started with the death of Theo van Gogh, film maker, critic and columnist (not family), murdered by a Muslim extremist. His reason? Revenge. But no, not for slicing his mother to tiny bits. No, neither for killing his little brother, swearing for revenge, on his knees, soaked in his brother’s blood. He killed Theo van Gogh because he made a provocating movie. Now, some of you might think, I don’t think that’s a bad reason, you can’t do such things
. Well, you’re wrong. Theo van Gogh maybe went too far with his movie and his thoughts, but that’s no reason to kill him. What could you do? A list:
- Write an open letter to a big newspaper. Everybody’ll think you’ve got something to say and a public debate will start, solving all problems
- Write a letter to Theo, telling him that you don’t like the fact that Theo just provocated your religion
- Let him be. Everyone has the right to think differently, to say it may go a little bit far, but when you get angry at someone because he doesn’t think the way you like him to is ludicrous
Yesterday some (probably) skinheads lit a Turkish primary school. It burnt to the ground. There is no reason to, for some reasons. The killer (or, as it happens to go in Dutch legal circles, “suspect”) is a Maroccan/Dutch young man. He didn’t go to school in Uden (where the school stood). Now, of course there’s reason to be angry at him. He killed someone, which is — even in the Netherlands — illegal. He wrote a letter to the one finding it that there are more people to be killed. That’s nasty.
As far as I can tell now, the Netherlands are polarised. It won’t be long until riots break, or moe people get killed. Something has to be done. But I have a sublime solution. All of you who are not happy with the way it now is in the Netherlands: go to Blogger.com and start a blog to vent your thoughts. There’s nothing better than writing your anger. People can read it, your point is made and nobody gets killed for it.
Yeah, of course you saw that, you wear glasses.
Errr… So?
Man, your eyes are so much better!
On why people wear glasses, and why people are stupid.
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