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Walt Mossberg: “You may never

Walt Mossberg: " You may never go back to Internet Explorer again." In the current episode of Mossberg's Personal Technology, he sings the praises of tabbed browsers. Of course old hat.

"The Web browser is probably the most frequently used category of software in the world. But in recent years, the browser most people rely on -- Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- has been stagnant, offering very few new features."

He recommends Safari for Mac (of course,) and NetCaptor for Windows.

Of course in knocking Internet Explorer he neglects to say that both NetCaptor and MyIE2 are relatively thin skins over the core IE ActiveX controls. So much credit still goes to Microsoft. Sorry!

On Windows, I've found MyIE2 somewhat better than NetCaptor, but both are better than IE.

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Well, is it Dr. Dean

Well, is it Dr. Dean or Governor Dean? It's funny to me when people try to build up Howard Dean's stature by using one or the other title, depending I guess on what the speaker thinks sounds more impressive. I'd say given the job he's applying for, the only relevant qualification is Governor Howard Dean.

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Wonderful Mars pictures? Unavailable! I

Wonderful Mars pictures? Unavailable! I was looking around the Mars Rover Web site for some of those amazing pictures, and to my surprise they are now asking for a password to get into the 'raw images' area. I've got to believe that this is not for security but because their server was getting totally beat up by people like me browsing around.

Hmm, maybe they should use some warez technology? Here maybe for the first time is a very ligitimate, legal, and useful place where Bit Torrent and other clever file sharing technologies could be used as a force for good 🙂