oh my, those smart web pages

Ever tried to use an alternative browser, say Opera 9.x, as your system default? If so, you might agree that one of the most annoying things you'll encounter with nauseating frequency is what I call the 'smart ass website' phenomenon. This type of mostly absolutely moronic sites keeps telling you that your browser would be incompatible to render it, thank you very much, and whether you'd like to download IE or Firefox instead.

Dear site creators: this is bullshit

Have you ever tried this out or are you simply relying on conventinal wisdom? Personally I know of no single page, which Firefox 2.x (software, which I quite extensively use and very much like myself) could render and Oprea could not. So why the f... do plenty of sites, starting with Google Desktop and not ending with the Web.de Web.de CLUB page creator keep telling this nonsense? Anybody has an explanation? Besides ignorance, that is...

Dear web site 'programmers', please let us choose our tools, just let your sites load in whichever browser we see fit and, let me very confidentially add this, should the site abc really not load (correctly) in browser xyz, so we are most likely gonna notice and just reload in another one. Life can be that easy if u start using the organ between your ears...

no holiday on ice...

gerade aus Österreich und BRD zurück in homely A'dam. No snow in Linz, Germany nice and dry, no ice in Holland. Erderwärmung, gut und schön, aber bitte doch nicht im Winter. Und im nächsten Jahr: wir malen eine weiße Weihnacht - der preiswerte Spaß für die ganze Familie.

Goethe zu Scientology, Nieuwe Voorburgwaal, A'dam

denn alles, was besteht ist wert, daß es zugrunde geht - Scientology braucht vielleicht ein bißchen Hilfe dabei, maar dat kan...