At lunchtime here at work, I was surfing the Web with Netscape 6 (more on that in a bit), and saw that the current vote count in Florida has Al Gore ahead with 240-something electoral votes to G.W. Bush with 220-something. Still not enough yet to win the Presidency, but it does definitely prove something: if Gore hadn't requested the recount, you folks in the States would have a President in office on a mistake.

Not that Montreal politics are much better: as of yesterday, the city merger plans - plans that have led to millions of ways for the people to say, "We don't want it!", all to deaf ears it seems - are going through. Within a short span of time, areas with dozens of years of cultural history will be erased to just be yet another suburb of Montreal. Pathetic.

Getting back to Netscape: the final release of version 6 does do everything none of the pre-release versions did: support standards. Style sheets finally work.

What bugs me about this is the fact that none of the pre-releases did this; we got stuck with a program that wasn't appealing for Web surfing in the least until now. This marketting plan was like Netscape shooting themselves in the foot, bleeding away users for about a year because of it. It made no sense!