More on the Browser Woes
There is an article talking about questions MS had to answer online about the latest troubles with IE. MS pulled the IE development team out of mothballs. MS is trying to make this in to a sales opp. "Bazillions of people use our product , that's why it's the target of all these attacks." Why is it taking you so long to get the fix out?" "We want to make it right."
losers.. There is an old saying "When you are on top, there is nowhere to go but down." In big business it is more difficult to tread water than to pull every one else around you down. MS has been so good at sky-rocketing above the competition, and absorbing surrounding technology that they have not defined a good path forward. Their strategy is to stay on top, and not to make good products. Every decision they make is tempered by "Will this keep us on top?" MS is not in th business of making software. They are in the business of making money. The products they produce are a by-product of their true intention. The same is true with GM, Ford and GE. It is different with open source. Their goal is to make software. The only way they can compete with MS is to make it free. Do you think they would make it free if they didn't have to?

Spiderman 2
I saw Spiderman 2 today. It is pretty good. I have to admit I didn't like all the glowing reviews. They scared me. It seems like whatever big blockbuster comes out in the middle of the Summer will get wonderful reviews even if it sucks. I like the fact that he falls down and has to walk home during one of his patrols. There is already a list of screwups in the lists. Apparently a scar flips sides of Peter's face. Why would the villain through a car through the window at Peter if Peter is his link to get Spiderman?

Online Spell Checker
I stumbled across www.spellcheck.net. It actually works. It has a good spelchecker, a calculator, units converter, and a bunch of links to other stuff of use. It smells like a class project gone production. I never want any one to tell me they can't find a spelchecker again. I was complaining about Blogger not having a spell check feature. This is one of those tools that will work from MS/Mac/Linux. I like it.