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“I hate Internet Explorer with a passion”. I wonder just how many blog posts start with those sentiments? I wonder how many of those people hate IE for it’s poor CSS support? I wonder how many people hate IE for it’s insecure nature?

Well, you might be surprised to find that you’re in a position to make a small contribution to help prevent IE staying the dominant browser for no good reason other than it’s already on your desktop when you install windows. Not only that but, if you can believe it, you might even make a buck or two out of it as well.

Explorer Destroyer have set out to achieve the unachievable: Banish Internet Explorer to minority-ville.

They written some quite nifty JavaScript that detects if your site’s visitors are viewing the page in the unholiest of browsers and display a referral button to download FireFox, packaged with google toolbar. There are 3 ‘levels’ of warning:

1. A warning section at the top of the page, allowing you to scroll and view the site as normal.
2. A warning that blanks the whole page until you click continue to view the site.
3. Uber-strength I-couldn’t-care-less-you-dirty-IE-user page blocking that will only let you view the site via something other than IE

This referral system is all done through Google’s AdSense program so you could actually make some cash for yourself via this. Unfortunately the FireFox referral system is only available in the U.S. so it’s not on this site… I’ll think about it though, if/when the FireFox refferals become available here in Blighty.

I’ve set up a few .torrents for the turbogears community. The first is the 20 Minute Wiki screencast and the second is the new TurboTunes screencast.

Beware of the second screencast as it shows (currently) unreleased features and you won’t be able to replicate it with the 0.8a4 release. If you want to see the accompanying web page for the TurboTunes screencast, head over here.

If anyone wishes to publish a TurboGears related torrent and wants to use my tracker, leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

Oh, and remember the golden rule of bittorrents folks; leave your client open after you’ve downloaded so you’re not simply leaching. :)

As you can see I’ve switched themes. I was going to create my own from scratch, but it was getting lost in the background noise of my hectic schedule at the moment. Now I’ve switched I am going to modify this theme as I go and personalise it.

I’ve also got a few bits and pieces to do with regards to cleaning up my categories, my links and my pages. Hopefully it won’t take too long before everything is ship shape.