March 2008
The End of an Era
March 4, 2008, 10:59 PM | 1 Comment
Today my favourite football player, nay, my favourite professional athlete of all time decided to call it a career after an amazing 17-year run in the NFL. Brett Favre has retired.
Like most Packers fans, the news came as a bit of a shock to me this morning, and even though we all knew it was going to happen eventually, I didn’t think that after the season that just passed that we’d be saying goodbye yet.
A lot will be said of Favre’s decision to hang ‘em up and the debate will surely rage on about whether or not he made the right decision. The truth of the matter is that he has made the right decision, because the decision is his alone. How can you say that someone who is making the decision to spend more time with his family is the right or wrong one? That is why, even though Favre clearly has more left in the tank, his decision is the right one for him to make.
Thanks Microsoft!
March 3, 2008, 10:16 PM | 0 Comments
I’ve purposefully stayed out of the much-debated decision that Microsoft had apparently made with IE 8 to use version targeting because I can honestly say that I see both sides to the argument and I don’t feel very strongly about either position. Today though, I’m breaking my silence on the topic because Microsoft has made an important decision.
In a complete reversal of their position, Microsoft today announced that IE 8’s new standards mode will be on by default. What this means is that developers will have to explicitly tell IE 8 to act like IE 7, not the other way around as had been previously planned.