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MSN Search - From A UI Perspective
An anonymous reader writes "The user interface community has also started poking and prodding away at the latest iteration of MSN search and has discovered some interesting findings including: XHTML strict, CSS for layout and the death of IE 5 support. You can also read first-hand MSN designer insight into the design process as well."
~ Michael and Me ~
A story of love and
wasted ambitions
_by Roland Piquepale_
These are hard words to write. It's only been a day since Michael was fired from slashdot, only a week since I left him as he slept in our dry man-love. Where to start... How about at the beginning.
2003 was a slow year for me. The consulting business just wasn't making ends meet. Advertising revenue from my online "blog" where I plagiarize other peoples' good work for my own gain was plummetting. I was lamenting in the pub over a few Long Island Ice Teas when I saw him.
He was leaning against a pole, sipping on a margarita when our eyes met. He walked over. "Hi, I'm Michael. May I push your stool in?" Silly guy, I've heard that old pickup line before. Regardless, I invited him to sit. "So Michael, what do you do?" Damn, such a tired line but it helps break the ice. "Well," he said "I'm an editor at Slashdot."
My prayers had been answered! "My name's Roland, I run a tech-blog but it's dying faster than BSD." He laughed quite hard at that, I think it was then we knew our evening would be spent together.
The next morning I awoke in his arms. Later over coffee we discussed the plan: I would copy information from other blogs and have pricy advertising on my site. Michael would link to it from slashdot and we'd share the ill-gotten money! It was a simple plan and it worked well for a good while. Then Michael changed. He started drinking excessively and would accuse me of cheating on him. I'd come home after a night dancing to ABBA and he's tear off my pants and just smell my privates as if checking for another man's scent. Ranting around the apartment at all hours, drunk on Pina Coladas. The money garnered from my blog couldn't keep up with his intake. We had the police there more times than I care to think of.
Finally, after months of abuse I had enough. A week ago I left and wrote an open letter so he wouldn't come after me. On top of losing the love of his life, I hear he just lost his job at slashdot. I don't know where he can go now, he's virtually unemployable what with his delusional megalomania.
I only hope he straightens his life out and finds a nice man to settle down with. He deserves that much.
Take care, Michael, I still care about you.
~ fin ~
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I'll get everything out of the way.
In Korea, only old people use MSN search.
In Soviet Russia, MSN searches YOU!
I for one welcome our new MSN search overlords.
Except in Nebraska.
...compliant
A GAY NIGGER
Hahaha another great one! ;-) Had me laughing out loud.
-- Jax.
Well, interestingly my search for circumspect elephantitis displays exactly one result - the same number as the same search on Google!.
But the REALLY interesting thing about this is that the results are different - how about THAT for a Moogle Whack?!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Eh, I did a view source on Google and saw TABLE tags.
Philosophistry