Again, I am mildly amused by the irony I see in my stat counter on the WordPress Dashboard: some nice person has linked to me on RationalWiki (a sort of anti-Conservapedia) concerning my article about the aforementioned Conservapedia earlier today. Thank you very much to those hypocrites at Conservapedia for indirectly racking up a healthy sum of sessions to this website in merely a few minutes. And to ‘Sid’ who posted the link at 14:38 EST today: I’d like to write you a cheque… 
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Netscape helped the World Wide Web to become prominent. In the 1990s. And, at last, this awful anarchorism is to cease development. What I find most amusing is that they claim that it is losing users to Internet Explorer – a browser whose market share is falling as Firefox (which sprouted from a port of Netscape’s rendering engine) and Safari (which has a completely new codebase) join it in the pool of browsers on the Internet.
But in its latter years, the loss of Netscape became something that we would not mourn – in an attempt to hold on to its users, it gained a ‘cool’ (bloated) new user interface, and could use either the Gecko (Firefox) rendering engine or the Internet Explorer engine.
Even worse, it gained stupid, automatic tools to search through Netscape’s portal, Netscape’s mail service, and just about every service they offered. They tried to control your Web experience in a similar way AOL does: yet, of course, people switched to better browsers. Which they could. Unlike with AOL.
All I can really say is ‘good riddance’.
I came across AQA 63336 a few days ago, a service which allows you to obtain the answer to almost any question with £1 and a phone capable of sending SMS messages.
Intrigued by the service, I decided to test it. I had originally been led to the site thanks to Simon Howard mentioning on his site that he was a part-time researcher for them. There is an opportunity to ask your first question free on the site – which I did. Here follows the text of my question.
Why?
I was impressed to receive a response within a few minutes. It said that the only logical answer was “why not?” (I can’t provide the original text since I’ve since changed mobile phones).
So far, I’m impressed. But that’s a bit obvious. Time for something a little more challenging, I think.
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