First of all, I would like to apologize for my recent rantings on seemingly mundane and insignificant matters such as internet service providers and browsers. With my first year review rapidly approaching, I find myself more and more cynical and just plain bitter about many things. I realized how bad it had gotten when I drove home from school yesterday and glanced at the jungle-like grass that has been growing in my front yard for the past two and a half weeks. For the first time in my entire life, I was actually looking forward to cutting the grass. This feeling has never manifested itself within me. From the very beginnings of my grass cutting experience, around the age of 8 or 9, I have always dreaded the mundane chore of grass cutting. Now the chance to get outside and perform the thoughtless task of pushing a motor with a blade on the bottom around the yard seemed like a glorious vacation from my stressful life. I mowed the grass that day faster than ever before because I was so angry and stressed about everything in my life, I just pushed the mower faster and faster, well, until I ran over the septic tank flush pipe.

However, I began this post to express my thoughts on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and why it sucks. If you are still using this browser, please, please, please stop now! It is completely outdated and riddled with security flaws. It does not provide support for many new web design coding techniques, and often displays web pages incorrectly because of this. For instance, my main photo site will not display correctly in IE because it doesn’t support some CSS tags, and I am not going to take the time to code the site in two different formats. So, in short, please download firefox, or opera, or flock, or any other current browser that is still in development. Apparently Microsoft is addressing these issues in IE7 which will be released with Windows Vista. But, until then, save yourself the trouble and stop using IE if you still are.