The Seattle Times details the security troubles with Internet Explorer. I finally got fed up with it two weeks ago and switched to Mozilla. Have been very pleased. (By the way, if you use Movable Type and find that your style buttons/customization bar disappears when you switch to Mozilla, see Sekimori and Dale Franks.)

More geek stuff: In response to some weird grumblings that a reader alerted me to, I note for the record that I took Sitemeter off my site about three weeks ago because it was publishing traffic numbers phonier than Enron’s. I think it wiped out about a week’s worth of visits for some reason. I e-mailed Sitemeter for help and they never wrote me back. So I took it off the blog. My Hosting Matters stat package is way better. I talked with blog guru John Hawkins about this and he pointed me to some of his thoughts on statistics trackers here.