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Ironically, I'm getting ripped off on this blog (http://www.accelzone.com/) by a customized version of my plugin...

Actually, the find/replace function is a rather dumb regex replace and was created for stripping out ads in the first place. Some RSS searches, for example, will add all kinds of junk into their feeds, which is not relevant to content.

Hey again :D I'm not angry or anything, and I'm glad you issued an update. It's good that this is getting sorted out. As for the actual spammer, someone is hosting him, and he has some ISP. Send a DMCA notice to them, and he'll get taken down in no time...

Hey Robert,

You've just committed libel. That's not my blog. Before you slam something like this, I sugged doing a WHOIS to lookup the information on who actually owns the blog. It so happens that he's using an aggregation plugin for Wordpress that I wrote and GPL released, but that's it.

It's not an "Of course" argument. Let's debunk your pseudo-technical claims one-by-one:

It's completely integrated into the OS of WinXP. It's already mostly loaded when you turn on the computer, and it's functions, etc are already being utilized by the OS so it takes less time to call them up in the instruction queries because of the integration.

Internet Explorer is a standalone application. But, putting that aside, the timings from the previous post were conducted over 40 runs. In the first run, both browser load themselves into cache--after that, it's pure load time. The effects you claim are responsible for IE's loading time are not actually at play.

As for it having a smaller RAM/resource fingerprint? That is slightly misleading again, because of the tight integration into the OS. IE resource usages are often hidden over by other system processes. If it wasn't so integrated into the OS it would be twice the size of Firefox at least.

Duh. Every windows process has tight integration with the OS. They're all using the windows libraries here. Even your precious firefox.

As for the new IE? Not happening until Longhorn.

We got a new IE with XP sp2, already.

No. It means IE has a better parser than other browsers out there. There are no standards for handling completely garbage input. I have a feeling you don't know what you're talking about....

Not that VB is bad itself, or all VB coders are bad. It just happens that most really bad programming seems to be done in VB--a paradox, as it's a modern language with some great features and strong typing.

It says it might ping some of those, but some are not included, don't worry. It's not an intersection.

It's actually the Konfabulator weather widget, now available for PC and Mac! Go get it!

Whatever is going on, it seems sad. I wonder when we'll know the whole story--I guess after trial, if the case isn't sealed.

Feuer Frei, I must comment, really. You write,

If Microsoft made a decent browser (in your dreams) in the first place, they wouldn't have needed all those security advisories and fixes.

I write, "If Firefox made a decent browser, they wouldn't have 2.3 advisories per month." As for your other claim,

IE is just unsecure bloatware anyways.

I write, "Firefox took 11.3% more RAM than Internet Explorer." Did you bother to read the article?

Well, I selected Server, OS, and I think one more of the hardcore groups to interview for. We'll see how they like me or not!

Is this even worth responding to? Not really--I think that poorly written comment stands for itself.

if you look and do research you would realize this is not the creeper

There is no indication otherwise, in any media. The Ithaca Police Department has issued a statement that Abraham Shorey is indeed the Collegetown Creeper.

And he has 6 beautiful children that he loves, there is no way that he would jepordize these little ones.

I quote, "The pathetic fallacy is the name given the specious attribution of emotions --- which is to say, pathos --- to the inanimate."

Look at his eyes and see that he is kind.

Please see previous.

If anyone reads this and knows ABe [sic] stand up for him, we need to catch the real creeper!!

The Collegetown Creepr is caught, has been arraigned, and will go to trial in early December. Stay tuned for the verdict.

Jeremy makes the point that "to blog" is being used a verb. Although its not quite a noun turned verb, as the noun refers to the surface of action, while the verb refers to using that surface--the difference between "to write" and "paper." That aside, would you rather blog or write?

Thanks. Forgot some http's.....

Don't you find it scary that designer genetic engineered cats are being sold? I have a feeling that the next big disasters are going to be from unexpected genetic side effects from these modifications...