The CBC has a nice post that includes a lot of snark about this: Microsoft is putting Internet Explorer out to pasture.

Nice lead – “A commonly held belief among heavy web users is that it’s only acceptable to use Internet Explorer for the purpose of downloading Firefox or Chrome.”

Apparently M$ will be introducing a totally new browser that is currently called ‘Project Sparta’ with Windows 10. We are cautioned that “Microsoft has yet to reveal the launch date for its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, but many online are already celebrating the end of Internet Explorer’s 20-year-long reign of ‘error.'”

A group of ‘Net engineers got together to talk about Terry Pratchett and came up with a plan to honor his memory – add GNU Terry Pratchett to the overhead stream on servers.

That generated the GNU Terry Pratchett website with instructions for adding the tag to server software.

If you use WordPress for your blog, there’s a plug-in that adds it to your static pages.

The reference is to a tradition explained in Going Postal, one of Sir Terry’s Discworld novels.

Don’t expect to see GNU Terry Pratchett all over unless you look at packet headers and meta data, because it is not intended to increase the overhead or appear to most people.

Dallas managed to keep it together despite severe sleep deprivation to win another truck. His team is in their prime.

Meanwhile Cindy is at Kaltag at the back of the race.

The oldest musher in the race, Jim Lanier, has scratched at Unalakleet. This was only his second scratch in 18 races.

Finished at Nome
1 Dallas Seavey (46) 3/18 07:13AM CDT
2 Mitch Seavey (18) 3/18 11:22AM CDT
3 Aaron Burmeister (63) 3/18 12:47PM CDT
4 Jessie Royer (3) 3/18 2:51PM CDT
5 Aliy Zirkle (32) 3/18 5:44PM CDT
6 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (16) 3/18 6:21PM CDT
7 Jeff King (59) 3/18 6:47PM CDT
8 Wade Marrs (65) 3/18 9:15PM CDT
Beyond White Mountain
9 Ken Anderson (36)
10 Nicolas Petit (12)
11 Travis Beals (56)
12 Paul Gebhardt (28)
13 Peter Kaiser (54)
14 Kelly Maixner (9)
15 Christian Turner (73)
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