It’s with a heavy heart that I draft this blog entry. I don’t like spending a lot of time or energy thinking about or researching the various members of the IE family. Their sordid history usually leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. With the latest release of IE9 beta, we are treated to some big claims from Microsoft. Among them:

1. “…we are actively helping set the standards for the modern web.”
2. “Through our investments in standards and interoperability, we hope to help bring predictability to web programming.”
3. “Because when you can spend less time rewriting your sites to work across browsers, you can spend more time creating amazing experiences.”
Source: www.beautyoftheweb.com

What irks me about all of this isn’t that IE9 is clearly trying. What bothers me is that Microsoft is making some bold claims and delicately skating over the fact that keep reading »

Websites with right-clicking disabled are obnoxious, unprofessional, and stupid. I’m not trying to steal your bullshit images, you insane alley vagrant. I’m just trying to open a link on your site in a new window so that I don’t accidentally close out of it. Maybe I should rephrase that, you stagnant oozing fuck puppet: I’m trying to stay on your website longer, and view more of it more efficiently. Stop penalizing me for being a good web visitor, you drooling glass-eyed sour-milk-breathed cunt weasel.

AT&T
This one is just charmingly funny. Someone made a serious booboo at AT&T recently which resulted in every customer getting an email announcing new store openings in the midwest. It’s nice and all that there’s a new store opening in Michigan, but I live in Philadelphia. Oh, okay, wait, there’s another store opening somewhere else I can’t easily get to? La de fuckin’ da. Twitter is abuzz about this snafu. Will AT&T send yet another email apologizing or come up with a more creative way of harassing their customers to apologize for harassing them? keep reading »

In our house, recently, we’ve been discussing the injustices of life, like, why real estate is so crazy inflated in Philadelphia, and why Alex can’t get a little chihuahua right now. Of all of these, however, the most unfair and cruel realities of them all is the tremendous discrepancy in underwear pricing for men and women.

OBSERVE, NON BELIEVERS:

There are several problems with this. keep reading »

Hey, do you like fish? Do you ever order fish at restaurants? Have you ever been asked this question when ordering? We had a server today who asked me, “How do you want your [grilled] fish cooked? Rare?”

No, I don’t want raw fish. Fish, depending on what it is, needs to be cooked differently, and I expect the chef to know that. The first time I was asked this question I sort of stared at my waiter and said, “I don’t understand. Just however the chef would ordinarily prepare it. That’s what I want to shove into my mouth.” keep reading »