My dislike of Flash is well known, and I am not alone, none other than Apple CEO Steve Jobs dislikes it too. You can read Steve’s open letter all about Flash here.

I hate Flash so much I have it blocked on my MacBook Pro. I would uninstall it but for the fact the internet would be all but useless without it.

Meanwhile the war of words hots up between Apple and Adobe.

So let me offer my opinion as a user of a Mac.

Flash sucks!

Flash makes my Mac crash.
Flash makes my CPU usage go through the roof, it runs the CPU hot and uses more power and increases the noise level as the fans kick in.

The problem is not so much Adobe’s fault for inventing Flash but more the web developers for using it all over the internet in inappropriate places where there are better alternatives to achieve the same results but mostly because they develop for Internet Explorer and IE is fatally flawed as a browser.

Flash is NOT for getting around the poor browser implementation of fonts and colours and all the clever stuff.

Remove Flash from all those silly locations. Once everyone has dumped IE and gone to Firefox, Opera, Safari or Camino Microsoft would have to get it’s act together and fix IE.

But don’t hold your breath, Flash, IE and all the problems will be around for a long time yet.

/rant

May 6 – we all get to go to the polls and vote for the next government of the UK. Usually I don’t bother; I really am not that bothered who runs the country, they are all useless.

However, despite having zero interest in the election and politics I love the election night TV. I’ll be up all night and fascinated by the election results.

Remember Chris Pattern, Shirley Williams or Michael Portillo? They all lost their seats at a general election.
David Owen’s SDP getting less votes than the Monster Raving Looney party!
John Major snatching back the keys to number 10 from Neil Kinnock when Labour looked sure to win?

I thought not; but I do and I am sure this election will bring many more amazing moments as the results are declared.

I can’t wait.

Better yet if we get a hung parliament we may get to do it all again a few months later.

Two election nights in the same year. Geek heaven!