Taupe Hat Systems

Lacking time or energy to do anything more productive, and yet unable to stand the sight of my website looking like it was, I went ahead and upgraded to the latest version of b2evolution and left well enough alone. I'm told that the spam filtering has improved. Let's hope so. For fans of the operator, here she is again:

11/24/05: Happy Thanksgiving. Post updated and bumped. It's certainly been an interesting year.

First off, if you've previously installed my idiocy level extension for Mozilla Firefox, please upgrade to the current version here.

I've changed the web service query to point at the Department of Homeland Insecurity website rather than Boyzoid's blog - he was very gracious under the circumstances but did mention something about getting 25 million hits to his web service, so please help out by upgrading the extension asap - I've also changed some of the text and made the graphics purtier, and also made the extension compatable with the upcoming Firefox Version 1.5.

Now I've got a few things to say about all the interesting comments appended to my extension at the moz page.

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So, for those of you who see nothing here but a really ugly white page with text, I'd like to officially welcome you to Microsoft-Free Friday. Supposedly, there should be an informative message that tells you what's up, but somehow PHP is getting through the mod and pushing text out. Oh well.

So why am I doing this? Lots of reasons. First off, I don't have this page up to make money, so I'm not losing any by doing it. Mainly, though, I'm running this mod out of antipathy for Microsoft in general, and Internet Explorer in particular... believe me, there are plenty of better, faster, more secure, and more standards-compliant web browsers out there. By now you'd have really had to crawl out from under a rock to not know that. Oh, and to those who say, "What about websites that are IE only?" my reply is simple: when I encounter such a site, I go elsewhere, right after sending a pointed email to webmaster@ that domain telling them that I've just clicked ads/spent money at a competitor's site. Money talks, you know the rest.