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The MKX® 7th Anniversary

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Last night we held the celebrations for the 7th Anniversary of The MKX® (first post).

How things have changed since then: Barack Obama hadn’t been born. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still in good shape. Michael Jackson was already white. Monterrey had only one championship under its belt. Global warming was well underway but did not scare anyone yet. I’m glad to report that the world has changed and out 706 posts have been the ones driving these changes.

Think about it: Kids that weren’t even born back when we started blogging are now old enough to read this junk and have their little malleable brains rot. For their sake we hope their parents have the good sense of not letting them read The MKX®. To everyone else (that’s you): Thanks for reading!

Photos from the party will be posted soon. Oh, and happy 2010.

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The Browser Wars II

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About three and a half years ago I took a look at the browser usage statistics here in The MKX®. A lot has happened since: Safari came out for Windows, mobile browsing finally became usable with the iPhone, and Google released a fast new browser called Chrome. I think it’s about time we take another look:

Browser Internet Q4 2009
(by Net Applications)		 The MKX®
April 2006 		The MKX®
December 2009
Internet Explorer 64% 59.32% 38.57%
Firefox 24.44% 27.12% 34.84%
Safari 4.40% 9.32% 18.55%
Chrome 3.82% No data 5.68%
Opera 2.25% 2.54% 0.49%
Netscape 0.31% 0.85% No data

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Conclusions:

  • Firefox, Safari usage keeps climbing.
  • Internet Explorer use is declining.
  • Chrome came out of nowhere and in a few months has a respectable number of users (myself included).
  • People who don’t use Internet Explorer are smarter and better looking. Thus, in average, our readers are smarter and better looking than the rest of the world.
  • Opera is dying a slow, painful death.

As an interesting not, now 2.75% of all our visits are from an iPhone or iPod touch. Thanks for reading.

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The MKX®: Now better tasting

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Ever heard of delicious, formerly and more cleverly known as del.icio.us? Yes you have.

Since March of 2005, a list of links I add to my delicious account show up in the sidebar of my blog. As you may have noticed a couple of days ago, I’ve improved upon this and modified the blog’s RSS feed so that those links show up there as well. Hooray!

So if you currently subscribe to both The MKX®‘s feed AND to my delicious feed, you can remove the delicious one. If you don’t subscribe to neither, you don’t know what you’re missing. Go read this now.

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Happy Thanksgiving

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From the perspective of a foreigner living in the U.S., Thanksgiving is a strange holiday.

Strange because despite of its religious origins and history, it is celebrated by every single person in the country. Strange because it’s larger than any other holiday, including Christmas, and everyone goes home with almost no exception. Strange because the most anticipated things about it are the football game and the shopping. Strange because in any email received around this date, people write “Gobble Gobble“, imitating the sound a turkey makes. Strange because the sound a turkey makes does not even remotely resemble “Gobble Gobble“.

I like Thanksgiving food a lot; but since I get a couple days off from work, I will be spending this Thanksgiving in Monterrey eating barbacoa, mole, machacado, and arrachera. Gobble Gobble indeed. Go learn some useful facts about turkeys.

The MKX® is very thankful for our good looking readers. Thank you for your loyalty!

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Older designs

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I guess it was bound to happen. Whenever you meddle with something that is dearly beloved by millions of people around the world, yo’ve got to expect some sort of backlash.

It happened to us when we redesigned. Worry not, our studies clearly indicate that a vast majority of readers prefer the new design and we are not going back.

However, in order to satisfy our nostalgic selfs, we present below a pictorial of previous designs for The MKX®.

 

The MKX® circa 2003
The MKX® circa 2003
The MKX® circa 2004
The MKX® circa 2004
The MKX® circa 2005
The MKX® circa 2005
The MKX® circa 2006
The MKX® circa 2006
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Protest

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It was bound to happen.

This guy Alejandro “Richie” Corona has started a Facebook group protesting the new design of The MKX®. He even created a logo, showcasing his MS Paintbrush skills (yes, Paintbrush, not Paint… he never upgraded):

Join if you want me to go back.
Join if you want me to go back.

Some people just seem to always go against change. These are the same people who are still playing Pong on little black and white TVs. They IM each other using ICQ. They browse the internet on 14.4 kbaud/s modems using Netscape Navigator. They still fax jokes to each other and carry a boombox around.

And they can’t accept a new layout for The MKX®.

To join their group and stay behind in the dark ages, go here. If the group reaches a membership of five (5), then I will go back to the old layout. And if you send this email to all your friends, then Bill Gates and AOL will deposit $5 to your bank account for each of them.

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New design!

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The MKX® is proud to present an all new design. We had not updated our look since 2005 when we first moved to WordPress.

This new look is based on Thematic by Ian Stewart, heavily modified by Moi of Moiblog and myself (but mostly Moi). Some of the exciting stuff in this new design, in no particular order:

  • Everything looks a little better, is more readable.
  • Cool random header images.
  • Better navigation.
  • Category icon is next to title, not post content. This was done through an ugly hack, for now.
  • Directly subscribe to The MKX®.
  • Many, many internal improvements.

Expect a few tweaks here and there in the following days as we clean up any last details, and feel free to report through a comment anything that doesn’t look right. Enjoy!