Very funny, I'm in stitches.

My thoughts too, initially. But the people that use automatic updates will already have been forced to install IE7. Whether or not IE8 is forced will do very little about IE6.

The 20-30% of computers that still use IE6 either have updates turned off, or they are in some company that won't switch to IE7 yet, because of outdated intranet software, or just an incompetent IT staff.

God, I really should know where Ontario is. I've played enough Risk over the years. Please ignore that comment.

The legend doesn't even go down to 3.8 m/s!

Leave it to the Americans to make you feel insecure about the amount of wind in your country.

... what happens when weather is bad?

You die! YOU DIE FROM RAIN!!!

Between the years of 1940 and 1945, the were no active .de domain names.

Coincidence? I think not.

Actually, if these stores can be set up as legitimate for-profit businesses, I wouldn't be surprised if this could lead to an antitrust case, forcing Apple to open up the iPhone.

Or rather, another antitrust case.

And to think, if only he'd written this article ten years ago, he would have actually made a fairly obvious, marginally relevant point. It's just unfair is what it is.

Surely you would want to use this more than once per page...

I would suggest something like:

.shut-the-fuck-up {
text-decoration: blink;
}

Point Sharepoint Designer to a Sharepoint site where you have required permissions, and have fun.

Fun? You must be joking. I've worked a lot with Sharepoint Designer and it's the most ungodly abomination of a software package I've ever had to touch. It makes the rest of Microsoft's applications look like they were made by NASA.

The whole of Sharepoint is gargantuan mess, from the half implemented API to the ridiculous, overcomplicated, undocumented deployment procedures (restarting the webserver every time you change code, really?), to the insane use of tables in the HTML (have a look at the html on an average system page, and see if your mind can deal with five or six tables wrapped around every single design element).

Sharepoint Designer is where you can really see Sharepoint for what it is. It has all these features that sound very nice, until you try to save an .aspx page and it replicates your previous change somewhere rather than the one you were currently checking in. You think "huh that's weird", delete, the extra code, rewrite the code you wanted to add, and check in again, and now the previous change appears three times. In the end the only solution is to delete the page and the associated content types from the site and create it again (and any pages that used it). That's the sort of wonderful behavior you can expect from Sharepoint Designer.

I've never used the WYSIWYG editor because, frankly, I'm scared.

What do you think happens when it inevitably cools?

It'll smack into some Russian sattelite?

That'll make such a great party trick.

Forget party tricks, how about funeral tricks.

A year and a half is an entirely reasonable amount of time to wait for an operating system release.

I run Vista, you insensitive clod!