Blog 153 > Deconstructing Danny – Part 1
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
“I’m taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work.”
~ Governor Tarkin, Star Wars Episode IV.
Part 1
- Tack [smiling]: Hey Katt! What’s up?
- Katt [lazily]: Hey, not much…
- T: What’s wrong? U sound bummed…
- K: I just visited DannyChoo.com this morning. He had another figure post…
- T: Sounds cool!
- K: …mixed with some of his inspirational wisdom again.
- T [confused]: What’s wrong with that? U like those, don’t u?
- K [nods]: Yeah, I do. Usually I do. But something bugged me this time…
- T: Oh, really?
- K: Yeah…
- T: What’s that?
- K: Well, u know that Cosby quote that Danny always likes to reference?
- T: Oh yeah, something like “…the secret to failure is trying to please everybody.” Yeah?
- K [nods]: Yeah… Actually, it’s pretty similar to that Lincoln quote “… can’t please all of the people all of the time”, yada yada.
- T: Hey, that’s true! So what about it?
- K: Well, I got to thinking about it… If Danny isn’t trying to please everybody, why does he keep on floating his polls and requests for opinions, et cetera. Isn’t he trying to please everyone?
- T [laughs]: No way! Come on, Katt! Wait, you’re talking about his new portal design, right? He’s definitely not doing that.
- K: Are u sure?
- T [nods]: Yeah! He’s just trying to design the best experience for regular and potentially-regular visitors. But not ALL his visitors.
- K: Huh? Potentially regular?
- T: Sure! Why would Danny want to keep new readers who didn’t like figures or anime?
- K: Yeah, that makes sense.
- T: Not only that, if he wanted to please ALL his readers, he’d design his site for IE6, IE5, IE4… But that would be stupid.
- K [nods]: Yeah… Or he could just be lazy, and not make the time to be backward-compatible.
- T: Hahaha, good one. I guess that makes us ALL lazy, hahaha.
- K [laughs]: Hahaha, yeah… I dunno.
- T: What?
- K: It still bugs me.
- T: Really?
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