Archive for October, 2006
What did Firefox teach IE?
Oct 27th
I love open source products. I love the way they branch out and provide competition for each other from the same base code. I love the way the software is generally released often and I love the way that user feedback is the driving force behind the majority of changes.
Now I have another reason to love open source software. It forces proprietary software to evolve… even against the will of the author of that software.
I have long contended that in the future when we speak of Firefox in a historical sense the only benefit we will remember will be that it made IE better. I just didn’t expect it this soon.
About 10 minutes after my first test drive with IE7 I spent some time staring blankly at the Firefox icon on my desktop. I hated to admit it, but Microsoft had out Firefox’d Firefox.
Read on for why I think that…
First Post… Welcome to Finalint!
Oct 20th
So what do you say on the first post of a blog? I read so many blogs and I already maintain so many sites… but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything appropriately original for the initial content on any of them. I don’t particularly expect this post to break that mold.
We’re blogging! “Who is we?”, you ask. Well “we” is currently just me. However, in the very near future I will be opening up this space to some of the people closes to me in this crazy joy ride we call life. These people have been hand selected by me to qualify for “friend” status in my very, very limited circle of close friends. As such, each of them has earned the right, if they so choose, to post entries into this site. Each person will have their individual space and each space will be uniquely theirs… to say what they want, how they want, when they want. It should serve as nothing more than a sounding board for an amazingly diverse group of people who I consider some of the best people on Earth.
I guess that pretty much wraps up what needed to be said for the first post. If you have more questions about how this site will be, where it came from or the type of people who will be contributing to it take a look at the “About Us” page. It outlines the basics better than this, the overrated and anti-climactic first post.