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for the geekier portion of my audience you will have already seen the news <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/02/1441242">here</a>, but to the rest of you: <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&#38;cid=74&#38;e=3&#38;u=/cmp/20040702/tc_cmp/22103407">U.S. Steers Consumers Away From IE</a>. that's right, the department of homeland security is advising folks to stop using microsoft's internet explorer. while it's been years since i used IE with any regularity (not actually running windows anywhere in my home), i know most of you do. stop it. stop it now.

allow me to just take this opportunity to recommend <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox">firefox</a>:

<a href="http://getfirefox.com/" title="Get Firefox - Take Back the Web"><img src="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/buttons/takebacktheweb_large.png" width="185" height="72" border="0" alt="Get Firefox"></a>
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fix line endings from import 2012-01-03 00:31:54 -05:00			for the geekier portion of my audience you will have already seen the news <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/02/1441242">here</a>, but to the rest of you: <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20040702/tc_cmp/22103407">U.S. Steers Consumers Away From IE</a>. that's right, the department of homeland security is advising folks to stop using microsoft's internet explorer. while it's been years since i used IE with any regularity (not actually running windows anywhere in my home), i know most of you do. stop it. stop it now.

			`allow me to just take this opportunity to recommend <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox">firefox</a>:`

imported posts 2012-01-02 23:33:14 -05:00			`<a href="http://getfirefox.com/" title="Get Firefox - Take Back the Web"><img src="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/buttons/takebacktheweb_large.png" width="185" height="72" border="0" alt="Get Firefox"></a>`