Searching Technorati.com for your blog can lead to interesting results (and incase you do search for my blog, I am not sure what that one guy is talking about with the pictures. Why didn't he just email me if it bothered him so much? I also didn't post that comment. Anyways...). The reason why my blog redirects you to an anti-IE page is a simple one: It's my personal site. Okay, that reason is kind of ignorant too, but it's true. Here are some other reasons why I did this.

The most important reason is that my blog will not render on Internet Explorer. It uses some CSS stuff that IE simply cannot handle, and ends up looking like shit. That's not the impression I want to give people who come here, so instead I just tell them to get a better browser. I'm sure my blog isn't W3C compliant (although most of waterfallsw.com now is), but it does render fine in Firefox and Safari.

It's also a protest for proper web standards. If a browser has such ignorance for these web standards, then I'll gladly block it from my site if I need to. Sure, the "too cool badge" is a little much (I'll be removing that soon), but I do not like Internet Explorer. I think it's outrageous that the most popular browser in the world can't be bothered to support common CSS. But I'm hoping IE7 will prove me wrong.

I'm not expecting to convert people to Firefox. I'm not a huge Firefox fan, but on Windows it's a very nice alternative to Internet Explorer. More browsers are popping up every day. Opera is now free, and the most interesting new browser is Flock. Flock is a very slick browser with some nice integration with del.icio.us and Flickr. Anyways, everyone who I have switched to Firefox so far have been very pleased with the browser.

The internet is evolving, and there's no room for browsers like IE6. Until I decide to change my design to be IE-compatible (which I won't, just so you know), the block stays. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Whoops, it looks like I missed October on the blog. I think it's time for another life update post. Here's what's going on lately in my life:

High School
I'm still required to live through another 1.5 years of it, but high school is going fairly well. While my marks are not as up to par as they were four years ago, I'm certainly enjoying school much more than I did before. The only real annoyance is Chemistry 11, a death trap for those who thought they could get even close to straight-As. It's tough, it's brutal, it's everything you hate about school and more wrapped up into one nice little subject. Great.

Waterfall Software
We just released Typeset 3, a brand new font viewing application previously released by Drew Hamlin. Now, you're thinking, "Hey! Font Book exists now! Who needs a font viewer?" That's where you're wrong. Typeset 3 is aimed at creative professionals who can appreciate Typeset's gracious design and functionality. Using Font Book to "quickly find a font" is counter-intuitive, if not painful. Mike Matas, who now works at Apple, designed parts of the interface, and it's easily the most usable and minimal version of Typeset yet. We're quite proud of it.

Avaeda's End
Some long time friends, including Corey, a friend since grade four, have started up a band. They did this a while ago, but I have become quite involved with the band recently as I designed their website, CD booklet, set up recording sessions, and more. They're really pretty good, although their style changes a lot.

Lords of the North
After the slow but sure death of Diverse Empires, the remains of the DE team have formed Lords of the North, a new MMORPG based on the FSO2 game engine. I've "mapped" all of the world so far, and it's really been a lot of fun. The response has been great, and we're quickly becoming one of the best FSO2 servers around. We're still building the world, but if you'd like to drop by and say hello, just download the FSO2 client and select Lords of the North as the server. Create a new character and you're set to go!

All the latest Apple releases are excellent as usual, and I'll be looking forward to the announcement of iTunes 7 next week. I'll also be turning 17 soon, specifically on November 26th. Well shit.