{"id":466,"date":"2006-07-24T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/07\/2006_07_24_2109.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T01:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:49:56","slug":"rowan-atkinson-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/24\/rowan-atkinson-and-other-stuff","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Atkinson and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember our family watched Mr. Atkinson (Mr. Bean) in one of his stand-up stints on TV a long ways back. It was arguably one of the best sketches for us. Anyways, I found it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" title=\"Visit YouTube\">YouTube<\/a> (why am I not surprised) <em>aaaah the memories!<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"370\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTzXJMU1sLc\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Apologies<\/h2>\n<p>I was looking back at my other post with regards to IE users, and I realized that that rant was a little off-base and inconsiderate. I haven&#8217;t had any negative email telling me about it, but I realized that no matter how frustrated I am, I don&#8217;t want to start alienating people from this blog just because of it. So I officially take back any negative sentiments I&#8217;ve posted there, and apologize.<\/p>\n<p>However, let me take this time to <em>urge<\/em> these users to at least <em>try<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\" title=\"Visit FireFox's site\">switching browsers<\/a>. 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