Archive for the 'Internet' Category

FireFox party tonight

Friday, November 19th, 2004

Today is the Kamloops FireFox release party at On The Rocks Pub & Grill. In case you haven’t heard about it, I wrote about it earlier, and you can find the location and details at the official Mozparty2 website. Hope to see you there!

Washington Post: Internet Explorer, you’re fired.

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

Firefox is getting all kinds of attention with their official release. Even the evening news in Denmark has covered the software release. I really like this great article published by the Washington Post today. Here’s my favourite quote: “I think anybody using Internet Explorer should switch to Firefox today. Seriously. Even if you’ve loaded every [...]

Take back the web: Firefox has gone 1.0

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Firefox, the finest, most secure Web browser ever created for average-user applications, went 1.0 today. You can download it below, toss out Internet Explorer, and be relatively assured that you computer won’t be compromised due to Microsoft’s bad design decisions and lax security maintenance. Download it here

Kamloops FireFox Release Party

Friday, November 5th, 2004

I am organizing a FireFox release party for Kamloops that will be held Friday November 19th. Here are the details:

Redmond asks if it’s time to dump IE

Monday, October 4th, 2004

It felt good to rant a bit yesterday. I rarely enjoy my own writing, after its been written, but at least the topic is accurate. Today, after having my but kicked by a math test, I bumped into this article from Redmond Magazine which claims to be “the independent voice of the Microsoft IT community.” [...]

Internet Explorer Headlines

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004

It still boggles my mind that anyone is still using Internet Explorer these days. Even the mere suggestion of an alternative program from a company other than Microsoft will give you the label of anti-Microsoft zealiot. Well people, I have some news for you: get your heads out of the sand. From a practical perspective, [...]