No, my friend, I haven't. Thanks! I'll check it out.

Greetings fellow fossil! Yes, I used Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla suite, Seamonkey(PreGecko), Seamonkey(Gecko)... Like I said, I never left! :) When Firefox came out, I didn't want to find a new email client or learn the new user interface, so I stayed. Time has passed, and I have found new reasons to happily continue. During that time just before Seamonkey, Firefox was hitting it's stride, and development on Moz/SM was waning. Thankfully, they finally "made it" Firefox with a different UI, allowing the SM team to only need to develop and maintain the UI. This makes it easier for addon makers and website development, etc. Regarding the BBS days, I find it amazing that no one knows we had much of the functionality of the internet before it was commercialized . . . . except it was NOT real-time :) Fidonet was cool, but an email took days for a reply! There are still 2 nodelists for Fidonet posted on the net that show my old BBS!

Seamonkey..and I thought I'd never see any users outside of the support forums! My first browser was Mosaic and I never left. Before the net, I ran a BBS under Wildcat on Fidonet.

I agree with some of what you said, specifically the inertia/mobile dev part, but my comment still stands. I do not favor any smartphone os (I almost said either :). I happen to like the iPhone. Despite the iPhone's success and position, it is not the only "phone". According to IDC, first quarter of this year, Android - 89.9 million units, Apple - 35.1 million units. The same article states Apple 23%, Google 59% smartphone marketshare. . . . Perhaps I should not have posted, but when I clicked on the article, I was thinking of sending the link to my brother. He likes his smoker, might have liked such a thermometer, but now has an Android phone. He had an iPhone 3, 3gs and 4 first. ... I'm just sayin' :)

There is not really a specific "grilling day" that I know of, but... I think we Americans like any excuse to grill. This holiday, our Memorial Day, has some traditions associated with it that are not a part of the reason for the holiday. Since it occurs at the beginning of summer, is near the end of school, AND the first "long weekend" of the summer, certain activities are "claimed" as a part of the celebration. Our independence day is similarly accompanied by images of outdoor activities including grilling. I guess there is a cliche image of Memorial Day (also Independence Day and Labor Day) in many American heads. Outdoor activities, grilling included, falls in that category. IMHO

The article preview states: "thermometers you can monitor from your phone". Perhaps HE/SHE can monitor it from THEIR phone... How presumptive... SO, everyone has an iPhone??? NOT! I hate to break it to you, but you and the iPhone are not the center of the universe. If you are interested in the thermometer and do NOT have an iPhone, just keep walkin'. To be fair, there are other items which may be of interest that do not require an iPhone, so it may be worth reading anyway... I'm bothered when told I can do something with my "phone", only to find out it's proprietary iPhone/iTunes. Tell the truth folks :) You *should* say you allow access from your iPhone... NOT "smartphone" or "phone". (gee, can I get that on my flip phone???)

I refuse to be forced to sit through ANY length of "pre-content forced advertising". Whenever I see "this advertisement will end in XX seconds", I think to myself; "no, it ends now" and close the window. If I see "you may interrupt this ad in xx seconds", I would think; "no, I may interrupt it NOW" and close the window. That's MY issue advertisers... Can't speak for the masses, but I will tolerate peripheral ads around the video since they DON'T INTERRUPT. I can also stomach small, translucent ads that DON'T INTERRUPT the video I clicked to view (i.e.youtube). "Forced view, pre-content" ads remind me too much of the scene from Clockwork Orange where the dude's eyes are held open and he is forced to watch violence... Until I found Adblock, I had a mental list of sites using forced ads and just didn't view their content. Now that I run Adblock, I don't see many of those, but Slashdot's video seems immune. . . . . so I submitted it to adblock for screening. I'll skip the content and check on occasion until it is either blocked by adblock, or changed by slashdot. I didn't view videos on Wired for two years...