Light My Fire
It’s happened! I knew it was coming—the data made that clear—but still, it’s thrilling. Yes, for the first time, more people are visiting my site with Firefox than Internet Explorer.
Two years ago almost nine out of ten visitors were riding Internet Explorer. One year ago it was down to 64%, with Firefox roaring up the charts. Now Firefox sits on top with 46%, smacking Internet Explorer down to second with 42%.
Okay, it’s a little sad, but I really do find this exciting. I’ve grown into a total geek fanboy since I converted to Linux: once I saw a couple of GNOME developers blogging about Jennifer Government and got all giggly. Tell you what, if open source software coders did tours, I’d be in the front row trying to persuade them to sign a bunch of CDs.
In other news, it’s almost Christmas and I live in Australia, so you know what that means: it’s time for me to go somewhere sunny and do nothing for a couple of weeks. I’m going to Perth to show off my baby girl to Jen’s relatives, so until January, I wish you all the best. (After that, I may be more vindictive.)
And in closing, I have included the photo of Finlay being menaced by a giant rabbit because it amuses me.
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Danni (#357)
Location: England
Quote: "Eagerly awaiting the European Tour."
Posted: 6692 days ago
Not surpised Firefox has overtaken IE... I've been using it for just over a year now and is much better... I love tabbed browsing :)
I'm a wuss when it comes to Linux and use the Ubuntu distro... I found it easy to use, even though I hate brown. Might look at some other distros when I get the chance.
Have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year Max,
Danni
Christian (#1936)
Posted: 6692 days ago
Danni (#357)
Location: England
Quote: "Eagerly awaiting the European Tour."
Posted: 6692 days ago
He uses Gentoo Linux (or used... he hasn't said if he's switched).
Max
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 6692 days ago
It's less geeky if you say "baby."
Oh, no, wait. It's more. Dammit.
spinne (#427)
Quote: "I'm not here to cock around."
Posted: 6692 days ago
Peter N.Bernath (#1041)
Location: Stockholm - Sweden
Quote: "Errr... Is that a tree growing out of your head? - Fallout 2"
Posted: 6692 days ago
That must be a good thing, no?
Soooo cute... ;)
Merry Christmas!
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom
Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill"
Posted: 6692 days ago
Have a fun Christmas, while you're sunning it up in Perth, I'm gonna be having a chilly one up here in England. I suppose I should go and get the tree down really.. Xmas in 3days, my birthday in 5..
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom
Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill"
Posted: 6692 days ago
fin_vs_miffy
=)
Chris (#816)
Location: Quebec, Canada
Posted: 6692 days ago
Tony Quin (#1310)
Location: Plymouth -urgh
Quote: "Yoga is NAILS"
Posted: 6692 days ago
I believe the technical term for people like myself is "laggard".
Erin (#1481)
Location: Seattle
Quote: "Living is easy with eyes closed"
Posted: 6692 days ago
Anyways, I wanted to let you know that I'm one of your Firefox visitors. If you have any other geeky goals, don't be afraid to let us know.
And go Perth! Whoo!
Phill Sacre (#1822)
Location: London, UK
Quote: "Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows."
Posted: 6692 days ago
*ahem* anyway... stats for my website:
Firefox - 44.6 %
MS Internet Explorer - 28.8 %
Ok, so I'm the only one who ever visits my website, but still!
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom
Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill"
Posted: 6692 days ago
mine's: www.digestives.bravejournal.com
the-tine (#472)
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Quote: "Coming soon to a planet near you."
Posted: 6692 days ago
Hobbie (#1359)
Location: Cornwall, England
Quote: "There was a little man in his hair!"
Posted: 6692 days ago
Oh, and it was also a stuffed toy. Heh.
Glad to say I'm one of those who have used Firefox from the start, it's about time people saw IE for the evil entity it is. Now if only we can get the baby daughter of a slightly mad Australian writer to infiltrate Microsoft headquarters and paralyse them with cuteness, the digital realm will be saved.
Michael (#1790)
Location: New Jersey, USA
Quote: "Roses are red; Violets are blue; in Soviet Russia, poem writes YOU!"
Posted: 6692 days ago
I wonder how much controversy THAT will stir up.
David (#1456)
Location: Sydney, Australia
Quote: "Why are the pretty ones always insane?"
Posted: 6692 days ago
But not as much as Bill Gates and those insufferably righteous Penguins.
Firefox on Mac OS X is the sensible way to avoid the monsters.
Mapuche (#1184)
Location: Darwin, Australia
Quote: "Inconceivable!"
Posted: 6692 days ago
Grace (#1225)
Location: Melbourne aka The Cliffs of Insanity
Quote: "I refuse to have a battle of wits with someone who is unarmed."
Posted: 6692 days ago
Or for the amusement of bored adults in the vicinity?
Michael (#1299)
Location: Northern California
Quote: "Chugachugachoochoo"
Posted: 6692 days ago
Hey- Congrats on being able to add 'doting' to your list of self-descriptors: she's a doll!
Rod McBride (#688)
Location: Gardner, KS
Quote: "www.MidwestRockLobster.blogspot.com"
Posted: 6692 days ago
I used to let Barney attack me and let my oldest daughter 'save me' from the attack. Then one day I faked a Barney tackle and she burst into tears, terrified that her favorite dino was actually killing her Daddy. When in reality, my hostility was all directed to that poster-child for de-funding PBS.
Phill Sacre (#1822)
Location: London, UK
Quote: "Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows."
Posted: 6691 days ago
It's http://phillsacre.me.uk :-) I'll add a link to yours on my "blogroll" (whatever that means)!
Hot Carl (#1946)
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posted: 6691 days ago
(yes teh)
I have not been brave enough to jump to linux. I'm afraid I might end up like Peter N.Bernath and realize im not as uber-geek as i had so imagined.
can anyone recomend a distro that is easy to switch to from windows (like linspire/lindows or do those suck)?
lsd is the new black,
hot carl
John Doe (#797)
Location: Live from Omicron Persei 8
Quote: "You're just jealous because the little voices only talk to me."
Posted: 6691 days ago
Up until then, I had been using nothing but Firefox. Heck, I still remember when it was called Mozilla Phoenix, and then they changed it to Firebird, and now Firefox.
Simply put, Opera oozes quality from its every pore. It has the best polished user interaction I've ever encountered. I'm not trying to disparage Firefox in any way, and I still think Firefox is an excellent alternative, but if I had to make my pick of browsers, Opera would come out first by far.
Sure, the switch was a bit tough. None of the shortcuts I was used to worked anymore, but I feel the adaptation effort was well worth it.
And still, you may argue, Opera is closed-source. Them fascists must perish in the blazes of hell! Well, no, not really.
While I admire the general idea of open-source, I think it would be nearly impossible to maintain Opera's high standards of quality if any rookie programmer with no clue about interaction design and/or any other quality control mechanisms were allowed to "contribute" code.
I think the Opera development team has done an awesome job thus far, and I don't want them to change a thing, *especially* not let any outsiders start messing up their code and workflow.
Find the box, Neo. Look outside.
Colette (#324)
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Quote: ""The good Earth â we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy" -- Kurt Vonnegut"
Posted: 6691 days ago
John Tate (#238)
Location: East Melbourne
Posted: 6691 days ago
Linux is still the best platform for hacking, development, and just thinking your cool because your such a macho non-conformist. However OpenBSD unlike Linux or any other UNIX is not afraid to innovate on past mistakes in the typical implementation, even if they do make a million applications impossible to run on it. Actually, that is the really bad thing about Linux trying to head towards POSIX compliance. POSIX ideas are what led to so many limitations in UNIX/Linux against de-facto stack protections, malloc changes and a miriyad of other things. POSIX blows in other words.
I would say Windows 2003 is a pretty good Operating System because it tends to just work, and work really well on most hardware. It is easy to deploy and very secure. Actually, Windows 2003 comes with a security enhanced Internet Explorer 6.0 which gets less spyware and crap than Firefox.
Talking about browsers, Opera is a terrible peice of crap. They make a million proformance shortcuts and cut standards, even worse than Microsoft do these days. Firefox is probably the best and most featured browser because it supports everything, every page, and hell if you want more proformance you can always tweak Firefox yourself!
Open Source development is important, and anyone who thinks it just lets it loads of code by "rookie" programmers have no damn clue as to what they are saying, and probably have never worked on an Open Source project in their entire lives, or at least witnessed the development of one from ground up.
Open Source promotes far more innovation and development, and maintainence. NT 4.0 and beyond might be retired, but you don't get that with say, Linux 2.0/2.2/2.4 which are all no longer in popular demand on the Linux front however still developed and have certain features backported including security patches.
Open Source becomes as powerful as its own developer base, which typically increases with the user base. This promotes a steady logarithmic growth in security protection. The Open Source model however also often promotes a steady rise in security holes found. However this has been proven to be able to change as long as a project respects innovation even if it needs to break things.
Ike Diggety (#1952)
Location: Florida
Quote: """
Posted: 6690 days ago
Allison Maxted (#327)
Location: Caledonia, Ontario, Canada
Quote: "Why do the mice keep voting for the cats?"
Posted: 6688 days ago
Sophie (#891)
Location: Devon
Posted: 6684 days ago
And I tried to use Firefox ... it was nice, but my computer didn't like it, for some reason. So I'm back with good ol' IE.
Johannes (#1982)
Location: Ohio
Posted: 6679 days ago
Not sure where to ask this but, dear Max, do you know of Christopher Nolan's new project in the works ("The Exec"), which sounds quite similar to the premise of Jennifer Government?
Get back to me somehow. Email, I suppose. Let me know if you know about this.
The premise is "A drama set in a future society where big business is the governing body, and conducts its affairs like engaging in warfare. "
Here's the link to imdb: (your book is mentioned on the message board, by the way) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382679/
Kitta (#716)
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Quote: "Don't feed or spank the monkey"
Posted: 6677 days ago
Mincetro (#584)
Quote: "This isn't skiing"
Posted: 6676 days ago
In off-topic, Have you seen/bought Coca-Cola Zero?
It looks, and I'm pretty sure, Tastes just like FUKK. The label is art-deco black and it sort of tastes like Pepsi Max.
Xedium (#1159)
Location: Cornland
Quote: ""If you can't fix it, it ain't broke!""
Posted: 6673 days ago
Yubi Shines (#1664)
Location: Canada
Quote: "HOPE RIDES ALONE!"
Posted: 6340 days ago
It makes me sad inside.
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