Following up my anger at IE five point aught, I’ve a question for you. Do you use IE? You don’t? Scroll on to the comments then. You do use IE? Read on…
What? What’s wrong?
Please! Give me one good reason.
No, a good reason. You don’t need spyware or dialers. No, you don’t need its render-engine either. I shall explain why you should switch — and remember, tell me why you prefer IE.
Stop using IE. Use … instead
There are many great alternatives. First of all, I want to make this clear: are you using IE/Mac? If yes, please, please, please use something better (or of course some alternatives). Now, on with normal people ;)
Internet Explorer can do great harm to your computer. It is so buggy that it lets sites plug malware into your system. That’s not what you want, do you? Also, IE is bad for the evolution of web standards, as IE doesn’t interpret them well. As IE has the biggest market share, people tend to design for IE. Ergo, code gets crappy and browser-specific. This site should explain well enough.
The alternatives, however, have a far more advanced render-engine. Sites are usually built now to tentatively work in IE, but to be fully featured in Firefox, or any other browser ;) (Note that this is just about standards-minded developers.) Browse Happy can explain this all a lot better.
Now, your opinion
Of course, you don’t have to switch. But believe me, it will improve your surfing experience. Unfortunately, Hanni made a short post on this, and consequently beating me to the second. But I still want to know. Why do you use IE (if you do, of course)?
I don’t like Paul Scrivens, and that may be my humble and miserable opinion. But I don’t.
Continue reading this post.
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.
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