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Entries published on January 23, 2008

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Legacy.

For centuries Galactic civilization has stagnated and declined, though only a few ever realized that. But now, at last, the Periphery is breaking away and the political unity of the Empire is shattered. Somewhere in the fifty years just past is where the historians of the future will place an arbitrary line and say: “This marks the Fall of the Galactic Empire.”

— Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Amid clamor in the world of finance, the world of Web technology today is experiencing its own crash, of a sort. The unexpected announcement today of a switch, triggered either by a meta element or an HTTP header, which will be added to Internet Explorer to cause it to behave as a specific version, “quirks” and all (and which defaults to emulating existing behavior if left unspecified), is leading quite a few intelligent people to start metaphorically shorting Microsoft.

Many of the responses are well-reasoned, …

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