Octopodial Chrome

Imagine if rather than Tolkien, it had been Douglas Adam, or Jane Austen, or Shakespeare who had written the Lord of Rings. An hilarious site.

Whilst downloading the newest crossfire client from Sourceforge, I saw an ad which interested me. Not wishing to disrupt what I was doing (and also aware that many ads pop open new windows when followed), I middle-clicked to open a new tab. When I got a moment, I eagerly turned to the tab to see what the ad was selling, only to find that the morons had, instead of using nice standard HTML links, done something-or-other which doesn’t play well with others, and so their link never loaded. They had to go above-and-beyond to break things; the easy way is also the correct way. Don’t they want to sell their product?

Robert Moran doesn’t think so. Bill Clinton re-elected with the exact same rates, and twenty years ago the current rate was considered the lowest possible.

There’s recently been several stories about certain memos written by Democratic senatorial staffers which Republican staffers read. The Dems claim that this required some act of cracking their computer systems to read. As Ira Winkler, a Democrat, demonstrates, this is not the case at all: the Democrats left the files wide open, even after being informed of the problem. A reasonable browser would conclude after the warning that any files remaining unsecured were public.