Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-23-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Does Homeopathy Work? A simple explanation.
  (tags: healthcare homeopathy skepticism)
• Microsoft release their new "Choose what browser you want to run" page.
  I like the way that the options change order randomly each time.
  (tags: browsers microsoft windows)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Me at work:

Person On Phone: So I'm trying to [x thing while building a webpage in our CMS] and it's throwing up [x error]. Can you tell me what I do? How do I log this bug?
Me: Are you using Internet Explorer?
POP: Yes. I know I'm supposed to use Firefox, bu- [beeeeeeeeeeeeeep...]


(Sorry, somewhat OT, but I'm at work and get to constnantly tell university workers to stop using IE to edit their webpages. It's kind of fun!)

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Well at least they know what they're using!

What are their reasons for using IE though?

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Usually it's just that they don't understand why Firefox would be better, and it looks different which is scary, so they just don't bother. It's on the managed desktop and everything.

This of course being only one of the myriad problems with the principally lovely idea of having a CMS user friendly enough that every administrator in the institution can theoretically be taught to use it.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, for that you need people to want to do it, and to take an interest. Technophobes don't do so well.

Also, I bet most of them can't write.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

They get put on training for that, too. Although it only moderately helps. But then, that's what QAs are for.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

PS: PSSST I GOT AN INTERVIEW FOR THE ZOO JOB!

[andrewducker]

YAAAAAAY!

PENGUINS FOR EVERYBODY!

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Hehe, which cage did you apply for?

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

hahaha :D