I kid you not, I have been building a new website for a customer that demanded lots of bells and whistles and eye candy (Interactive dynamic Flash pulling photos and images) - so I did it the best way I could with proper XHTML/CSS. I tested the site along the way to ensure cross browser compatibility from IE6 to IE8, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and on PC and Mac platforms before asking him to try it out last week. He called back saying some of the dynamic content wasn't loading. After a long time of talking to him on the phone where we seemed to be having two different conversations I finally realized he was using AOL and I suspect the AOL proxies or tweaked browser are messing up the caching for the dynamic content.

AOL in 2010!!! He has a fiber internet connection and the latest greatest computer but refuses to let go of AOL as that is what he equates with the Internet! ARGHHHHHHH

I talked to his office tech guy who says he would be willing to upgrade his boss to a newer version of AOL, but getting the top man to switch browsers was impossible. I'm still recovering from that incident.

So, yeah - I'm a little bothered, and at least in this instance, would have been fine with the known aggravations that a regular IE6 browser would bring.

As a kid in the early '80s, I created my own space marine/spy/superhero character and drew a comic book of one of his adventures: lots of spaceships and weapons and a sinister villain as part of a class project. I named him Zork because I was fascinated by the letter Z (I was a huge Zorro fan growing up) and the combination with the letter K sounded strong. I had big hopes of making him into a toy product line, Saturday morning cartoon, and a series of choose your own adventure books. Oh well...

Only 50% in 18mos? They is disrespectin' Moore's authoritay