Archive for March 2010
It is extremely sad that Frank Frazetta, one of the greatest legends in the history of heroic fantasy art, should have at the end of his life a divided Frazetta family fighting over the Frank Frazetta legacy. It all started last year when Mrs Ellie Frazetta, Frank Frazetta’s wife, died. She and his son Frank Frazetta junior had been running the Frazetta family business for many years but almost as soon as she died the other siblings made claims upon the Frazetta inheritance that escalated into a bitter feud. You can read more about what is going on here and you’ll find other news articles on the web too. How do you feel about it?
With all the controversy going on over the family feud since the death of Mrs Ellie Frazetta last year let’s remember the great art that is the real legacy of Frank Frazetta and put up Death Dealer as this month’s Picture of the Month and hope that sense will eventually prevail in the Frazetta family.
Death Dealer 1 by Frank Frazetta
… and a big no hand for Mozilla Corporation for kicking all online businesses where it hurts - thank you. Just what we need is a new version of Mozilla Firefox that displays a warning message on the golden padlock on perfectly secure checkout pages. We are not quite sure what planet these Mozilla Firefox programmers are from but we wish they’d have stayed there! We recommend that everyone gives up on Mozilla Firefox and goes back to Internet Explorer or another browser. This really is the last straw. There have always been incompatibility problems with Mozilla Firefox but when you can’t even order anything from B&Q without the golden padlock showing a warning that this page contains unauthenticated content then we are going from the merely annoying to the outright ridiculous! I expect that like other online retailers we have lost business due to the incompetence of Mozilla Corporation in releasing such a poor upgrade. New buyers on the Internet only know that the golden padlock means it is safe to enter your card details. If there is a warning message there that they don’t understand they are likely not to buy. Mind you, in the end they might find out that it is happening all over the place and suspect that the problem is Mozilla Firefox and not the websites they wanted to buy from. Of course, it is rather unfortunate for the first few websites that they abort their purchase from …
So as far as we are concerned its bye bye Mozilla and hello old IE … and we’d like to assure customers that if you have seen this warning message using Mozilla Firefox if you use IE instead you won’t get the warning message. Why do these large corporations think they can start to play at being God? Or in Mozilla’s case, Godzilla?
Lily Maid of Astolat by artist