Archive for April, 2008

Microsoft : Powered by baby seal blubber

April 7, 2008

I recently had the displeasure of being reminded, once again, of why Linux isn’t gaining ground as fast as it should be.
What seems to be turning into a ritual of sorts, this post was motivated by yet another comment. This time, left on Konrad Strachan’s post on Vista bashing.
It’s quite sad that Konrad’s well thought out [...]

Javascript Free menus (in CSS)

April 5, 2008

I was just visiting the msnbc web site and I couldn’t understand why a simple menu like the one used on the top navigation bar would be so “glitchy” and slow. It’s the same in Mozilla and IE7. As If big portals aren’t already bloated and full of junk markup, it seems the simpler the outward layout [...]

FAA : Frequently Apathetic Administrators

April 3, 2008

We don’t nearly have enough people dying mid-flight for any serious involvement by these good folks.
Why is it that people have to die in droves for anyone in office to feel motivated? Is that what it takes?
In keeping with Lewis Black’s modest proposal to take the entire Bush administration for an afternoon of electroshock “Just [...]