The comments…

Are you one of the 78 who voted for its importance? I doubt it’s triumphantly enough to make any big headlines anywhere but here.

“Are you one of the 78 who voted for its importance? I doubt it’s triumphantly enough to make any big headlines anywhere but here.”

My! Someone’s deadbeat son has just demonstrated his complete inability to get a simple joke. Triumphantly, no less.

And you didn’t get that what I wrote was an ironic joke.

Anyway nice to see you.

No, seriously, the comments …

I think I lost the will to live round about the point they were arguing about CSS hacks. Or maybe it was the IFrame thing. No, wait, it was the argument over whether to count up to 1000 or count up to 10000.

This is no triumphalism, Kim. It’s simple astonishment at long-term technical incapacity to get the simplest possible thing right.

7 1/2 years of a train wreck (whilst happily nattering amongst themselves) is a pretty dire statement to make.

You still need work on that irony thing, Kim. Somehow it just isn’t coming across.

Merry Christmas, anyway. (Non-ironic, obv.)

No big deal. Irony is tricky and culture bound as well.

It’s just like how I wished more understood that Kafka’s work is all about humour.

It wasn’t. It was all about entomology.

Kafka was a cruelly misunderstood author.

(Imagine, a faceless civil service full of cockroaches … well, that’s quite easy really. The man was ahead of his time.)

Really Doctor, “ahead”?

Pray tell, who (what?) do you think was employed in the public bureaucracy back in Kafka’s day?

Lizard men, perhaps?
(They seem to like the oil industry nowadays; if reports of their sightings are to be believed that is, but I have no doubt…)

I think it was Austro-Hungarians, but “lizard men” is a reasonable approximation, yes.

See, I think The Castle is a much misinterpreted text. If you read it carefully, it’s all about cockroaches’ inhumanity to cockroaches.

Although, obviously, there’s a metaphor there where the cockroaches are presented (for purely didactic purposes) as humans.

I wonder why nobody “fixed it himself” before, since it’s so easy with free software. Anybody can do it, right?

Well, maybe because it’s not that easy to set up a build environment for Firefox, then dig into megabytes of code, understand these megabytes of code, add some feature, and make sure it doesn’t screw up something else.

All of this while updating the sources with the main tree.

Anybody can do it, right? It’s just software, after all.

So when will Mafia$oft fix the insecurity and BSODs on Windoze? I filed a bug report in like 1993.

Hee hee.

Mind you, it’s a bit of a shame that M$ pays no attention whatsoever to bug reports from seven year olds.

It’s even more shameful, Adam, that you still appear to be seven years old.

(With apologies to all the seven year olds I’ve met who can spell correctly.)