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When is it too much?

Raise your hands in the air if you love t-shirts.

Now stomp your left foot if you’ve ever rummaged through rack after rack of dusty second hands in a thrift-store-salvation-army-friends-closet to find that perfectly ironic, exquisitely vintage, super soft, one-of-a-kind tee.

Jiggle your arms if you’ve purchased something from Threadless or Busted Tees.

While jiggling your arms and stomping that foot, tap your belly rhythmically if you lust after every color of 50/50 American Apparel t-shirt (dirty sexy filthy mmmm). Keep doing this, don’t stop. This dance is just getting started.

Stick out your tongue and blow a raspberry if you have shirts that are ten plus years old and the armpits have fallen out, the collar has disintegrated, and your nipples are visible in even the darkest out-to-dinner settings. Does simply owning this t-shirt piss off your girlfriend (ex-girlfriend, haha)? – and you are wearing it out anyway!

Bob your head.

Bob your head if you can think of at least three people that refer to you as their friend with too many f*cking t-shirts. Yes! And just between you and me, this can be our secret, because you know we’re dancing together and all – wink at me twice if you bought a shirt online today – maybe it was during your lunch break .

Drop it to the floor if you screen print your own shirts. Buy band shirts. Sell band shirts. Kiss the fans of the bands that sell the shirts. Boutique. unique. limited run. small press. Internet. t-shirts.

Read t-shirt blogs?! Everybody scream!!! Haha.

Point to yourself if you ever said out loud “I wish that was on a shirt.” Now point to your friend if you then Googled it and there it was!

Now stop jiggling those arms, breath in. Slow that foot, relax your mouth, breath out. No longer tapping your belly, break down the head bob, your smallest movements. your sweaty t-shirt – though it’s not the weather for it. Feels good.

I really don’t think I have a t-shirt problem.

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The soundtrack for this post is Jerk It by Thunderheist

This is my inaugural post and I am writing about this topic because it has been on my mind a bunch lately. Really, when will this browser die? Will 2009 be the year developers slam their coffees down and say, “No Way Man!” Will Windows 7 and IE8 show up and deliver where IE7 and Vista failed miserably?

I was a PC user for nearly 10 years before buying my first Macintosh. And I rocked my PC and Mac in tandem until the intel chipset and the virtual machine stuff made it possible to own a single computer. I grew up amidst the Netscape and Internet Explorer mayhem of the 90’s and I cut my teeth the first half of the decade tearing apart the ‘net with IE6 as my chariot.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was in 2001. And it is long overdue for retirement.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/i-wont-support-ie-6-in-2009

Ajaxian posted a cute article to kick-start the new year, indicating that IE6’s numbers are down further than ever before. (Exciting!) But of course that’s not always the case, especially where building web based  applications for Corporate or Academic institutions are concerned.

How much can javascript hacks bubble gum IE6 into behaving on the modern web?

And How effective is simply denying visitors access to information or services if someone continues to use the old browser?

Basecamp phasing out IE6

I know there has already been an infinite amount of discussion, griping, moaning, kicking, screaming on this topic so I am going to finish up.

I am just excited for this year and what it could bring – As a web developer, a designer, a user of the vast internet, and a citizen of the world. I love what I do for a living and I have enjoyed my involvement with these technologies as they have matured over the last 14 or so years.

So I’m holding my breath, I’m crossing my fingers. Let’s all plan a massive geek party to celebrate this year, 2009, when Internet Explorer 6 dies.