All posts tagged Internet

Bye Bye IE6, It's (not) been fun.

by admin on June 4, 2009 in Uncategorized with No comments

Internet Explorer is the bain of any web designer’s existence. It has been twice superceded, it displays CSS poorly, and more often than not, many modern scripts just don’t work on it.

LinkArtist Multimedia, like other companies (including Apple & Google) are going to be proactive in killing it off. As of June 30, we are no longer going to support Internet Explorer 6 in any of our websites as standard. If your site requires Internet Explorer 6 testing & development, it will now add to the cost of your project.

As a client of LinkArtist, you now have 3 options:

1. Ignore IE6 (and hopefully it will go away!)
2. Install a script on your website that encourages people to upgrade their browser (or has a disclaimer that, because the site is being viewed on IE6, user experience may be different to how it was intended.)
3. Pay for additional development time for Internet Explorer development & testing.

Naturally, IE7 & 8 will still continue to be supported, as will Firefox, Safari & Chrome.

This has been a long time coming, folks… Remember Netscape, anyone? :) It’s time to hold a funeral.

How Not to Blog.

by admin on April 5, 2009 in the googletubes with No comments

I have been blogging since before the word “blog” became fashionable. Before Blogger. Before WordPress. And even before we started thinking in 140 characters or less & telling everyone what you’re thinking. Yes, I am totally cutting edge.

I used an awful WYSIWYG editor called NetOjects Fusion, to manually edit HTML pages to tell the internet about how my mummy doesn’t love me and how I had a roast beef roll for lunch, that wasn’t as good as the chicken sandwich I had had the week before. Pretty fucking riveting stuff, that no doubt will serve as anthropological evidence that self-absorbed cunts existed in the year 2000.

I often laugh at the amount of crappy self-confession that went on… and over time I have tried to be less inane and moderately more entertaining. However, as I scoured through the archives of my old personal blogs for funny posts (or padding for the new blog, depending on how you look at it), I found posts that, in hindsight, really should have had me banished from the internet for clogging up the tubes with shit. They included:

  • How I bought a steam cleaner and steam cleaners are awesome.
  • How I bought a vacuum cleaner and vacuum cleaners are awesome.
  • How I hate the fictional character Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy.
  • How I needed to go to the shop later (no joke).
  • Gory details about blood pressure, pregnancy and babies.
  • How I was depressed that people from high school were successful and I wasn’t yet, because I was at uni for 9 years and boohoohoo.
  • How I adopted a cat.
  • How I moved house.

and the funniest one:

  • How this new video site, YouTube, was kinda awesome and addictive, and all 14 of my readers should TOTALLY check it out on my recommendation. Before you ask, no, they didn’t write me a commission cheque for the free advertising.

Needless to say, this wasn’t exactly what I planned. My blogs, over the years, became dumping grounds for random thoughts and inane memes, rather than actually producing something worthwhile and readable. So, this blog, Contempt for Humanity, has been created. I have scoured the archives and kept the content that I thought was funny and readable, and scrapped the rest (about 140 posts, I might add).

So this is an official apology to the internet for dribbling shit. I shall try to do a bit better from now on. In the meantime, check out some of these archives that I had forgotten about. Some of them are actually rather funny.

See? I’m a comic genius.

All the newfangled stuff…

by admin on January 6, 2007 in Motherhood Rules! with No comments

Mina has pretty much unlimited access to the internet, where she plays on things like ABC Kids, Disney and EverythingGirl.com.

I was walking by her on the computer and she said”

“Mum, I am great at the DOT COMS”

heh.

Happy Sweet 16, Internet.

by admin on November 15, 2006 in Uncategorized with No comments

The Internet turned 16 yesterday.

I thought this was kind of appropriate. When I think about “the internet”, I can certainly liken it to a 16 year old:

  • It is often a place of mystery and bemusement for older generations;
  • it tends to attract predators, bullies and weirdoes who just want to look at teenage boobs;
  • it is often hard to understand the language it sp33ks;
  • it doesn’t work when you want it to;
  • its still not sure what it wants to do when it grows up; and similarly
  • it is at a crossroads in its life where it can really go either way.