Shoup Airlines

The Little Search Engine that could

In my daily travels across the internet, I came across the coolest thing today: a search engine that donates money to the charity of your choosing.

GoodSearch was created by a brother/sister team that in losing their mother to cancer wanted to find an easy way for people to help their causes. This is what they came up with.

It’s powered by Yahoo’s search engine. Not quite Google, but powerful in it’s own right.

They get the donation money from the advertising revenue they generate. So go search now! We all know that’s what you’re doing instead of working right now. So why not do some good as well?

Go check it out! I’ll shutup now.

The Gallery is finally here!

Some of you may have seen phantom links appearing and disappearing the last week or two and wondering what was going on, or more likely, couldn’t have cared less. Here’s why —->

You now have a Gallery to browse at your leisure, but will most likely use to help procrastinate at work. Some photos are old, some are new, most have comments, but not all. There is still more to come, I just haven’t had the time to put everything in yet.

The programming may still be a bit buggy, but that’s what I get for stripping someone else’s idea. My hat goes off to Keytwo for all his work and help. Be patient if the Gallery starts acting up, but let me know. I haven’t thoroughly tested everything. For those of you using IE, get out of the stone age and download Firefox!

Now, without further ado, I present the Shoup Airlines Gallery!

Internet Explorer and other things that really piss you off!

I.E. SUCKS!! Granted most things that come from Microsoft generally bite the big one, but Internet Explorer is the epitome of all that is bad in my eyes. AOL comes in with a close second, but I digress. There is definitely something to be said for open source code and creative commons licensing. Bill Gates, your empire will crumble soon, very soon.

Being recently employed again, I find myself sitting at a cubicle with a computer, an Internet connection, and a lot of dead time on my hands. Gee, what’s a boy to do!? At first, I’m reluctant to reconfigure the laptop to my specs (ie: Firefox, Google, Open Office, etc.) so I relent to using I.E., rapidly remembering why I dropped it in the first place, it sucks! I also soon discover that my website appears without half of the images showing! I thought it may have been some coding that I had screwed up (this means late nights and lots of frustration because I have no kung-foo), but then I pulled the site up in Firefox and everything was once again at peace with the world. The nano-second this realization fires a synapse in my brain I’m ready to drop kick Mr. Gates and his world of Windows into the dark ages.

All of my code works fine in every other stinking internet browser except for I.E. $&@*$%!! I’m not only livid that I.E. has once again failed in it’s inadequacy, I’m pissed off because I know this isn’t going to be an easy fix, once again causing the late nights and frustrations! Most would say why not just leave it and let those with I.E. miss out on ALL the goodness that is Shoup Airlines? I began to think this as well (which isn’t usually my normal train of thought) until I saw the stats this month and found that 75% of the visitors are using I.E. That is sad, but I have to accept it. So, after roughly a week of comparing others code and image location settings in I.E., I found that it was several SPACES that caused I.E. to spew forth this crap, or more appropriately NOT spew forth the crap. That’s right! Spaces, those little voids between each word that makereadingeasieronyoureyes has long since been adapted to the coding world as well!! Apparently, Bill didn’t get that memo. Maybe he’s a bit tied up with a blue screen of death on his latest world subjugation project, Longhorn.

I apologize for those of you that have to view the Internet through I.E. If you have the option, I highly recommend switching to Firefox, as the image that should NOW appear in the sidebar to the right indicates. Words cannot express the level of superiority that Firefox and other fine applications of Mozilla hold over Windows products. Please now, enjoy Shoup Airlines in all it’s intended goodness, or badness, depending on how you look at this website.

Oh yeah, one more thing…I.E. SUCKS!!