39 Hours

My thesis is due in 39 hours…

I am very sleepy.

Spam is flooding my comments as I type.

Please go away evil robots.

Internet Explorer 7

After staring at Joel’s classic anti-IE rant every time I’ve visited his site for the past 6 weeks or so, I decided to test his assertion that Internet Explorer 7 is useless. But this time, I’m going to do it scientifically. No emotionally-driven slurs on Gates’ manhood for me, just cold hard facts.

Installing IE7 was pretty easy. Problem is, it took 11 minutes and 52 seconds. Plus the extra 2 minutes and 29 seconds or so to reboot my PC (not including the fact that once Windows logs in, it continues to boot well after displaying the UI). So let’s call that an even 15 minutes.

I then installed Firefox 2 for good measure. It took a whopping 26 seconds, then displayed a box “Start Firefox now”. Upon starting Firefox, all my old extensions, bookmarks and search engines were there. Hooray. I then checked in with IE7. Upon starting, I was welcomed with a friendly screen informing me that my current settings had the browser running in English (Australia) mode. It kindly suggested that this was probably wrong, and I should be in English (US) mode. Also, I couldn’t check to see whether my bookmarks were still there, as I couldn’t find the bookmarks menu. Nice work.

Now, IE took quite a long time to load. I decided to check how much memory was being used. I’ve always taken the view that Firefox is too bloated as it consues 27,052K of RAM, just to display a Google search page. With bated breath I loaded up Task Manager to check IE.

50,360K! Holy crap! Where’s all that memory going? There’s no weather report, no live football scores (all of which are partially responsible for Firefox’s footprint.

There is only one solution – Internet Explorer 7 has some kind of secret embedded subliminal pornography beamer in it. When run, it beams porno rays into your brain, making you want to search the web for all kinds of deviant sexual videos.

IE7 is sponsored by the porn industry! Plus, the text is all blurry and it’s giving me a headache just typing this entry. For now, I’ll stay with Firefox. For IE8, please include a bookmarks menu, a weather forecast, and some decent text rendering. Goddamnit!

Marsupialmusic.net Slowdown

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