Eric Odom

Yasser Dabha over at No One’s Listening had me chuckling earlier. He posted a sarcastic letter about the Firefox vs. Internet Explorer happenings at the work place.

Enjoy!

Dear Mercy Medical Center System Administrator,

Thanks for finally making Firefox inoperable on our computers — even the portable version. It’s about time we got that award-winning, open-source, and robustly secure piece of software off of our computers. What an utter piece of trash.

It’s refreshing to know that we’re now exclusively embracing casino-inspired toolbars and commercially-driven search engine add-ons. Perhaps once the toolbar is completely occupied with third-party extensions, we’ll no longer be tempted to use Internet Explorer for work-related activities.

Thank goodness Internet Explorer’s security profile is flexible enough to allow even the most inexperienced user to install these brilliant add-ons. I know that my patients and our HIPAA lawyers all sleep well at night knowing that we’ve rid our computers of one of the most secure browsers to date. Now our text pages and web-based applications can share patients’ personal health information with keystroke loggers and spammers who clearly know how to best use this sensitive information.

Not to mention, I’m sure that all of those automated updates and security patches that Firefox installs on its own make your job much more difficult. Now your time can be better spent playing online Texas Hold ‘em with the rest of us.

So, thank you, dear System Administrator, for slamming the door on that standards-compliant blunder that is Firefox. It’s about time.

Ecstatically yours,

Yasser Dahab, M.D.