Dec 28
My Predictions for 2008
Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 in Just Foolin
I’ve never done this before but since everywhere I turn during the past few days, there’s a new set of predictions for the coming year. So I decided to come up with my own list. And here it is in no specific order or validity.
- Google will not actually take over the world. Instead it will begin to lose it’s search engine market share to Microsoft as Live Search offers up better pictures of celebrities in compromising positions.
- Firefox 3 will take the world by storm and gain the majority of browser market share. Microsoft will then scrap all current plans for IE 8.0, un-bundle Internet Explorer from XP and Vista due to being slapped silly by the European Union and offer the next version of IE as part of the "Windows Live Services" instead.
- Apple’s OSX gains even more popularity as average PC users become disgusted with Vista and start buying IMacs. The US Army’s push to put more Mac’s and Mac-servers into their network for security purposes makes the Mac platform more popular still.
- Due to the above, hackers world wide begin to turn their efforts towards these machines thereby wiping out 68.6% of all Mac’s and Mac-servers by the end of 2008 simply because most users didn’t install anti-virus programs on their systems. The Army installed Symanatec’s "Mac-virus suite" for theirs however and were the first to fall…of course.
- Google wins the wireless auction and pushes out cut rate wireless and broad band. Major telecom providers storm the Googleplex in a fit of rage. Mountain View, CA is turned into a battle zone. Other search engine providers carry the story. They also secretly supply equipment, ammo and foodstuffs to the telecom’s.
- Hillary Clinton wins the election, pulls all the troops out of the Middle East within three months and turns the entire area into a glass parking lot shortly thereafter. Research for alternative fuels and energy receives a major boost and tons of funding.
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tells the US government to stuff it and declares California an independent democratic nation. He is then elected President of California.
- Hillary Clinton is impeached for turning the Middle East into a glass parking lot, becomes Vice President of California.
- Celebrities who continually made complete fools out of themselves in 2007 will continue to do so in 2008. A few more will join the ranks of the the Rich and Stupid.
- And I will get that Crazy Eight meme done before my next yearly predictions. Hopefully sooner than that.
Disclaimer: In the case that any of the above predictions actually come true, I hold myself completely blameless in any and all cases (unless, of course, good things come about, then I’m a genius).
Thank you for listening…er…reading. 
I downloaded FF3 this morning and had a quick go on it. For some reason it was very slow, but I like it. A lot. So many nice new features, like the address bar.
Back to FF2 though, I miss my add ons.
Hmmm, that’s funny. It’s faster than both FF2 and IE 7.0 on my machine but I’m using the trunk builds (nightly builds), not beta 2. Hopefully the extension authors will have their add ons updated by the time Firefox 3 hits the streets.
I’ll definitely give it another try, but I didn’t have much time when I tried it earlier, but really wanted to see what it’s like! Patience is a virtue I definitely do not have.