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Tuesday, June 18, 2002 This week's Tuesday Too: 1. What's your favorite browser? Why do you hate "the other one"? I mostly use Internet Explorer because most sites are optimized for this browser. I don't really hate any of the other browsers--I'm more exasperated that they all have different standards which makes it a headache for web designers in general. Netscape is okay, but makes my clunker of a computer run slower. Opera and Mozilla are also okay, but as before, I'm just more used to Internet Explorer. Maybe I should break this "habit", but at the moment, I don't see any reason to. 2. Are you fascinated by technology and the internet, or is it just a handy tool for you? How did you get involved in blogging? The more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. What I'm referring to are the applications that people are developing to work with the basic blogging programs such as blogrolling or commenting. I initially updated manually every couple of weeks. Very sporadic. I had stumbled upon blogs before, but most of them were filled with eye-straining teen angst and for a while I avoided them like the plague because that was what I thought blogs were--angsty journals. I actually got into blogging last year, early November, due to Nanowrimo. Many of the participants were already into journalling and I figured it might be a good way to keep writing after Nanowrimo was over. 3. What do you think about the alliance of conservative U.S. Christian organizations with Islamic governments (Iran, Libya, Iraq) "to halt the expansion of sexual political protections and rights of gays, women and children at United Nations conferences" (Washington Post article by Colum Lynch, June 17, 2002)? Disturbing. Seemingly disparate groups have picked strange bedfellows in order to advance a particular agenda. This is particularly troubling because of several things: these people have reached a high enough position to propose these actions, that other people will actually listen to them, and that they probably will not act ethically to acheive their goals even though they believe that these goals in themselves will establish morality. This may also be an attempt to concentrate power to a few (if you take away gays, women, and children, what you have is a minority). It's all a matter of control. There are some people who want to control others even though they have no right to meddle and impose into others' lives. But it's probably futile to reason with these people--their notion of basic rights are drastically different than mine. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 10:38 AM : ]
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