“They stab it with their steely knives,…
… but they just can’t KILL the beast!” -the Eagles, “Hotel California”
The ghost of Kate Morgan at the Hotel Del Coronado (photo above: the hotel, not the ghost 
) in Coronado, across San Diego Bay from San Diego, inspires nowhere NEAR the TERROR….
Today, a “funeral” is being held, as I write this, in Denver, Colorado, with more than 100 people, many dressed in black, to say goodbye to an old “friend,” Internet Explorer 6.
Even Microsoft is trying to kill it!
Premature burial (1)? After all, even Intel is still using it, and sadly, I know schoolkids who are still using it, too! Besides, Google, Adobe, and 32 other silent (ashamed? ) Silicon Valley companies who were using it assisted a cyberattack originating in China by providing a “way in.” Of course, the flaw existed in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 as well, so upgrading would not have saved them!
No, I think IE6 is more like “Night of the Living Dead,” or, if not a zombie (1), perhaps a Nosferatu or vampire. If it were in my power, you could hand me a wooden stake and a hammer, and I would take care of the final arrangements, and those of its son and grand-daughter, too!
Alas, it is not.
The afore-cited funeral announcement also says that the funeral service began 25 minutes ago, as I write this, and that “Apparently even more people want to see IE6’s cold dead body than we imagined.” The announcement lists the place of death as Mountain View, California (fitting, somehow! ).
Microsoft would not comment on the funeral itself.
Or more intelligence than some corporate customers can muster…. Internet Explorer 6 was introduced in 2001. You would think that all of those years would be enough time.
(Note added March 9, 2010: Today Microsoft warned of NEW zero-day holes in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.)
(Note added March 13, 2010: You can download a version of Firefox [Mac, Linux, or PC] in an International edition that “speaks your language” here. Not an endorsement….)
-Bill at
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