IE7 Update
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. It sounds like the party has gone well while I’ve been gone. Goats, Tech? What would you do with…never mind. I don’t want to know.
I’m still in Texas, and I’m using IE7 to stop in and browse. So far, I like it. Hubby doesn’t use the tabbing capability, but I’ve used it a few times. I don’t think I’ll make it my default browser, but I’ll probably upgrade to it on my machines when I get back to Alabama.
And, May, those nanites are something else, aren’t they? Glad you found a good batch to sweep the bad ones out of your system. I just finished reading The Cubicle Next Door by Siri Mitchell and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think Val over at In My Little World blogged about it a few months ago, and I picked it up because of that.
Oh Jean, we needed the goats because we were going to be baaa-a-a-d! 🙂
Snarf to Tech.
Glad you enjoyed the book! I did, too. Safe travels to you when you’re homeward bound.
I’m unaware of what you’re refering to by “nanites”… but the word is suggestive. Specifically it suggested to me the idea of suggesting to you the book: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Or, even better, the entire Baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver, Confusion, and The System of the World. This may all be unnecessary if you have already read his books, but I didn’t notice them on a cursory look at your reading list, so I figur’d I’d suggest it. For someone who likes to read and who delights in flights of linguistic phant’sy, there is no greater gift I can give. Merry Christmas.
I can help you with this one. Check Paperback Writer’s blog entry from Dec 7th (http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2006/12/three-wise-women.html)
I’m not familiar with Neal Stephenson’s work. I’ll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Ahh, so I was on target by suggesting The Diamond Age. Anyone here heard of memes? They’re like nanites, but instead of being composed of atoms they are composed of meanings. Little buggers reproduce en masse. For instance, Wikipedia estimates that the total amount of extant, human-recorded meanings runs to about 12 exabytes. That’s 13,835,058,055,282,163,712 bytes. We’re a breeding ground for contagious ideas and behaviors.