Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Eric Burke suppressing a desire to get a Mac?

My friend and colleague, Eric Burke, recently altered his blog to show the date of the posting with a calendar 'icon' rendered by a CSS style-sheet. While I appreciate his frustration with the inconsistent handling of CSS by different browsers, that is not what caught my eye. Here is his graphic:



And here is the icon for iCal (the calendar program on Mac OS X):



What do you think? Is he is suppressing a desire to get a Mac?

1 comment:

Michael Easter said...

Excellent analysis, Dr G!

I offer further evidence of his latest schwag: Shadenvista. If you look at the graphic for it, it's straight from Dante's Inferno.

Sounds like a classic case of SupprezenMacOszen to me. A veritable cry for help.