One day, I promise, I will hunt down every installation of Internet Explorer, its binary code, source code, libraries, backups, archives, plugins and all associated tomfoolery, and secure erase it. It has no place in this world.

I will stamp on or otherwise destroy every backup tape, disc or printout.

Every screenshot of Internet Explorer, related blog entries that praise it, and every CSS hack or workaround will get the same treatment. I will annihilate it all.

Then web designers can live in peace.

BBC director general Mark Thompson has given new media an expanded role in the corporation, meaning that when a programme is being made, all media outlets should be considered simultaneously.

Great. Now go sort out BBCi, your interactive TV service. Because I’m not too happy with:

• Missing pages
• Poor update rates of content
• Badly formatted content (e.g. cricket scores)
• Articles being cut off before their conclusion
• [UPDATE] Duplicated content
• Pages linking to the wrong content
• [UPDATE] Pages that never load

Teletext was actually far superior to what we have today.

More spam from e-media solutions, promoting their e-mail stationary service. Mmm.. looks good.

Love that Quantum letterhead:

This has a watermark incorporated within it which would be typed over the rest of the images would not allow you to type over them.

Okay.

Nice presentation.

Robert Scoble writes about how “more and more startups and companies are gonna go the Gmail route” because it’s easier to get started.

He’s absolutely wrong. Would you work with a business that just had Gmail addresses? We wouldn’t rely on a third party beta product to be at the core of our company’s operation. It’s not difficult to get reliable web hosting and attendant applications. Takes about, oh, two days and costs a couple of quid. Ah, but two days is a long time in startups? Well, perhaps, but just launch your beta two days early to compensate.

And you certainly shouldn’t launch your corporate blog on a free blog site. No matter how ‘unofficial’ it appears to be. What happens when the company servicing it disappears? Who owns the content? What impression does this give to your clients?

It all amounts to this:

• We’re not confident about our business to invest money in it
• We may not be around tomorrow
• We aren’t professionals

Spend a couple of quid. It makes a difference.

If you have a custom theme for your web browser, your Windows or Mac installation, be very ashamed. Come on, what’s the point?

Then we get to Which?, the Daily Mail of consumer affairs. Today, they report that many cereals are ‘high in sugar’ and others have as much fat as a bacon roll. Details here.

The Tate Gallery has been censured by the Charity Commission because it has purchased works of art by its own trustees.

This follows last year’s ‘technical error’ when it sought money from the National Art Collection Fund to aid the purchase of The Upper Room by Chris Ofili, another trustee.

Why exactly is the Tate Gallery considered to be a charity? Is it because there’s a ludicrous notion that art is special and needs to be hoarded, preserved and maintained, excepting itself from usual commercial issues. If so, what of art that gets commissioned, or contemporary art that gets purchased by a gallery shortly after it has been made?

Perhaps I should apply for charitable status for my music collection.