Thank You, Pittsburgh Steelers!

My request this week was granted by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

After a horrible 6-10 season last year, I told myself that all I wanted from them was a 10 win season. I could care less if they made the playoffs (which it seems that they will), or won anything else. Getting a 10 win season was all that I asked.

Not only have they done that with the recent win over the Redskins, but they've even done it by winning 9 games in a row with a rookie at the QB position. Quite impressive, being that most of the team is relatively unchanged from last year. I guess Cowher isn't as bad a coach I thought.

Some musings on Internet Explorer development

Perusing through my rss feeds and stuff, I came accross an interesting article relating to microsoft IE development and the competition. In his own blog, Robert Scoble, who works for Microsoft wrote the following words in one of his latest posts concerning the currently in-process development of the next version of Internet Explorer:

"Speaking of which, Dean Hachamovitch the other day showed me prototypes of the next Internet Explorer. I got to see them before he even showed them to other executives. He told me I could say about that much (I wanted to post screen captures on my blog, but he turned down that request, bummer). I'll add in that if they ship about half of what they showed me that I'll uninstall Firefox. Of course, I'm guessing that it'll probably be a year before any of us will get any bits to look at and I'm sure that Asa, Ben and the other devs over on the Firefox team won't twiddle their fingers. It sure will be an interesting competition."

I find that what is interesting is that although other competition will probably offer features first, Microsoft will no doubt offer them later, but perhaps they will be developed better. Of course, we all know that IE will be adopted by the typical user who doesn't have browser preferences, nor knows much about IE alternatives. Therefore, no matter what Microsoft introduces, it will most likely be a success to some degree.

Thanksgiving Dinners

For some reason, I find it hard to really enjoy thanksgiving. Maybe it is because I feel like a glutton. Spending several months of my life living with families in poverty in Central America, I'm pretty aware of how good we have it in this country. This is not to say that I'm at all ungrateful for what I have, but it seems to spark something in me when I look to survey the tons of food that is before me in different varieties. Its the sting of reality for the tons of families who have never seen this much food in their lives and never will. Something I think that we should all do is match our thankfullness against the reality of what other families don't have. Many of us have plenty to be thankful for, but the American culture that we live in sometimes just doesn't get it. Thanksgiving for some is just a tradition of being a glutton, and less of true appreciation for the grace that God has given us.

Technical Insight

And now we turn to the technical FAQ writers at apple.com for some deep and penetrating insight on how to use a Mac:

Click here to read.

Thank goodness for that insightful piece of knowledge. I'd be lost had I not read that FAQ and owned a Mac.

If you are a Mac user, do not take offense, its not you or the Apple company, its the idiot at the top who thought it would be important to put that bit of info on the website.

Election results and the Current state of John Kerry

I don't have much to say about the election results. I'm a republican so these are now more comforting days for me. However, a good friend of mine, Paul Fink, coined the current state of John Kerry in a way that deserves quoteable status.

"He now goes in the scrap heap of ungraceful losers with Al Gore. "

Brilliant, Paul. Brilliant.

Fantasy Football Dilemna

Yesterday was difficult. The Pittsburgh Steelers were playing the New England Patriots. Being a big fan of Pittsburgh, I found it really difficult to approach the fact that 3 point sources of my fantasy football team were all from New England's team. Should I cheer for New England to win so that my fantasy team could win? Or do I cheer for my favorite team of all time, the Pittsburgh Steelers? Needless to say, I gave in and rooted for the Steelers. Its not every day that you watch a rising rookie QB and a renewed Steeler offense wax an undefeated (In 21 games) New England team with ease. On the bright side, an unexpected Drew Brees 5 TD accomplishment helped us to rise against our opponents and pretty much seal off this week's victory anyways. So a win for the Steelers, and a(pretty much expected) win for my fantasy team. It turned out to be a good day after all. :-)