First concerns the current stagnation of Microsoft's web browser. While other browsers such as Mozilla, Konqueror, and Safari sport surfer friendly features such as pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing, IE has been stuck at version 6.0 longer than I was in college it seems. Bill addresses his critics saying,

Count me in this group of developers who wish Microsoft would fix their broken Internet Explorer. I also wish all you people out there still running IE 5.5 would upgrade too!

Just a few weeks ago, I dedicated some time to updating and upgrading my bolivian soccer news site which I'd neglected since March. Well, back in March i decided to start scraping the news section from some fo the online, Bolivian newspapers and linking to the stories on the right. After my redesign, I checked the site's traffic and was quite surprised by what I found. I was expecting to see a huge dropoff in traffic since I hadn't updated the site but I found that there hand't been a noticeable change in traffic since then.

Middle Earth Mapquest to make al Tolkien fans smile. The only thing its missing are the adverts that tell you were Orcs and Trolls might be similar to the ones that try to get you to stop at a nearby 7-11 or Holiday Inn.

Some people hate when a blog is just a collection of links to other places but here goes...

You can now support Mozilla projects by buying stuff from the Mozilla activism shop

Why you should switch to Mozilla'sThunderbird browser on Windows on DKR Productions:

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Adot's notblog has a very useful summary of blog postings regarding the growing buzz surrounding Mozilla's Firebird browser

Slashdot found that MS IE6 SP1 will be the last standalone version that Microsoft makes available.

Joel on Software writes that he is making Mozilla Firebird his default browser