Mind over Matters: Rumbles of my mind.. Echo in this blog..

Everyday, the first thing that i do when i come to office is open dilbert.com and see the goold old black and white comic strip for the day, taking satisfaction in the fact that it is the norm for things to be absurd in the corporate world. But today when i logon to dilbert.com, what do i see? A heavy and clunky page which takes forever to load with popups.. But then, once the page loaded, i got to know that mr. scott has gone the web 2.0 way and decided to make his page more colorful, slick, animated and incredibly heavy.

The dilbert strips now show up in color which is cool and defenitely great. The corporate world is no longer monotonic black and white!The page is loaded with a lot more content about mashups, widgets and even more advertisements. There is also a dilbert animation app available on the page which shows you a short animated dilbert clip every day. For people like me in India who dont get to see the dilbert series on TV, this is awesome! Excited, i clicked on the link and ahem. the clipping came up fine, but no sound.. Apparently you only need to use M$ (oh maybe mac) and IE (safari too?) so that you can watch the clipping..

How so dumb and lame is that? Blame it on scott or the company he outsourced the project to? I'm sure it isnt hard to port the app that you are doing to firefox. Infact, my experience is that it is easier to develop apps for firefox than for IE or safari. Then why this corporate boot-licking when the whole theme of dilbert is to a satire against corporations?