Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox.

He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user.

"Firefox feels to me like what IE 6.0 should have been (or what i expected it to be after I left the team in '99). It picked a few spots to build new features (tabs), focused on quality and refinement, and paid attention to making the things used most, work best."

He also has some helpful critiques for improving the browser, to which Asa Dotzler responds.  The comments to Asa's post are very informative too, Scott has even replied there.

Now's your chance, Ecost has 40 hour tivo's free after \$150 rebate. You can then get the lifetime registrations (\$299 i think) if you're like me and don't like recurring bills. Or else pay \$12/month. If you get one, please use this email address when registering your tivo: regis AT oscarm DOT org.

Update: Sandy noticed that the price has gone up to \$50 since this morning. Also, that email address is the one tivo has on file for me.  It's supposed to be short for "registration" and I use it as the spamable address I give out to big companies and organizations. Anyway, if you use that during registration I get a little credit as a res

Buster, Patty's beagle, went in for surgery last week to remove a tumor. Patty has the biopsy results and has to decide what to do next.