Daily Archives: July 13, 2010

On Receiving Random Telephone Calls

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Here’s what just happened to me (and happened to my cubiclemate 15 minutes previously):

*My telephone rings*
Me (answering phone): “Hello, Tamara speaking.”
Person on other end (garbled): “Do you speak Chinese?”
Me: “Pardon?”
Person on other end (clear): *speaks in Chinese*
Me: “I’m sorry, I don’t… Who are you trying to reach?”
*Person on other end hangs up*

Really…? I mean, come on, at least say ‘hi’ before you ask me whether I speak Chinese. And, if you’re calling internally (which this person was), there is a phone book at your disposal, both online and in hard copy. Figure out who you’re trying to reach first, so you don’t end up calling random people in the hopes of finding someone who speaks Chinese. Because the likelihood of actually finding someone in this manner is rather impossible. Just sayin’.

On Internet Explorer 6

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Why, why, WHY do people still use this browser?! It’s old, terrible, outdated, simplistic, inefficient, and the list goes on. Unfortunately, it seems to be a “company standard” in a large number of large corporations, simply because they have old software dependencies which somehow require IE6, and they can’t be bothered/don’t want to spend money to upgrade anything. 

I received a bit of a shock today when I saw my blog stats and they told me that roughly 53% of my visitors use IE6. Really?! (And then I realized that most of the spam bots which hammer at this blog are probably run off of an old computer which runs IE6). But seriously! What if those ”visitors” weren’t spam bots? What if I truly had a substantial audience using this sorry excuse for a web browser? 

There have been multiple funerals held for IE6 in the webdesign world. Some sites now say that they’ve completely dropped support for IE6, just because it’s such a HUGE pain to design/develop for. But what if 50% of ALL web traffic came from IE6 browsers? I think that this alone would cut the current number of webdesigners/developers in half. IE6 is one messed up browser; it barely supports CSS2, and relies on hacks to keep everything working smoothly. And for the month-and-a-half I was using it at work, I wanted to rip it apart, line by line, on a daily basis.

Conclusion: Stop using IE6 and help webdesigners/developers regain/retain at least a small part of their sanity.

P.S: I have no idea where I found the image, but I don’t intend to infringe anyone’s copyright by using it, so please don’t sue me if it’s yours (if it’s yours, contact me or leave a comment, and I’ll credit you):

On My Pseudo-Diet Experiment I

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So the first day of my Jugo Juice lunch replacement has come and gone. Yesterday, I ordered a “normal” 24oz Summer Strawberry with extra soy protein, and proceeded to consume it over a 1.5 hour period. Result? A rather urgent need to use the washroom later in the afternoon, but nothing otherwise unpleasant. 24oz is a surprisingly large amount of liquid, and it definitely did a good job of filling me up. According to the nutrition booklet I have, this particular smoothie has 350% of my daily Vitamin C intake :O.

However, I then ate like a pig at supper. So I may have negated any effects of lunch. Oh well.

So today… hmm. I think maybe a Berry Binge would be good? Or perhaps a Righteous Red. Decisions, decisions.