Daily Archives: January 31, 2008

Aussies lead the world in Firefox uptake

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Go Aussies!  More evidence of how smart a country we are …. Australia has one of the highest rates in the world for Firefox usage.  Good to see 31% of us have ditched Internet Explorer and moved to a far superior browser.

Oceania (Australia and NZ basically) leads the world with 31%, followed by Europe 28%, North America 21% and the rest further behind.

Here is a map showing the levels of Firefox penetration by continent.

Firefox in December / XiTi

So whats with the 69% of Australians still using Internet Explorer …. get with the program people and change over to Firefox.  You won’t look back.  Do yourself a favour and download it.

Closer to God

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An Air Canada flight from Toronto to London had to make an emergency landing in Ireland after a medical emergency … apparently the co-pilot suffered a breakdown, and had to be removed from the cockpit and restrained by other crew members.

According to a passenger:

“He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly at times,”

“He was swearing and asking for God and very distressed. He basically said he wanted to talk to God.”

I suppose  for someone wanting to talk to God, he was in the right place – well, 10,000 metres or so closer than if he’d been on the ground.

Seriously though, wouldn’t you shit yourself as a passenger had you seen this happen on your own flight?