No, this is not another shameless Opera plug, Opera beats Mozilla Firefox hands down; there is no competition per se for the firebadger’s audience are the geek masses whereas Opera is patronized by the geek classes.

The firefox killer is actually the next avatar of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates issued a statement that the company will ship an update to its browser separately from the next major version of Windows. A beta, or test, version of Internet Explorer 7.0 will debut this summer. Leaked photos of Internet Explorer 7.0 are doing the rounds on the net. From what I can gather, Internet explorer 7.0 will have support for Tabs, a pop-up blocker, full RSS support and better security features.

The average Firefox user, wants just the bare additions to Internet Explorer 6.0 which will be incorporated in the next release of Internet Explorer. Firefox users who have become hardcore power-users will have already shifted base to Opera and it will be their preferred browser. With Mozilla facing security lapses and the Internet explorer upping its game, I’d say that a majority of the ignoble populace who currently tout Firefox as the next best thing since sliced bread will revert back to Internet Explorer.

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A thirty year mystery behind the true identity of the informant code named ‘Deep Throat’ has been revealed. Ironically it was Vanity Fair who came out with the expose as opposed to the Washington Post, the daily that broke the bureaucrats in the 70’s with aid from ‘deep throat’.

Mark Felt, former deputy director of the FBI, was the infamous ‘Deep Throat’. Mark Felt was responsible for leaking the misdeeds of the White House and the then president Richard Nixon to the Washington Post which resulted in the Watergate Scandal and which eventually led to Nixon’s resignation.

Rather than pronouncing him as an American hero, Mark Felt should be sentenced to death for his role in the fiasco which held a whole nation to ransom. He broke the most sacred covenant, that of a fiduciary nature. A fiduciary relationship exists between a father and a son, a teacher and a pupil, a priest and his disciple, a govt. employee and the government. This trust is not to be broken no matter what. By breaking this fiduciary relationship, Mark Felt has disgraced himself for ever.

As the No 2 man in the FBI, it was his duty to uphold the prestige of the institute and the government, which was his foremost duty. There are other civil and governmental organisations like ‘Internal Affairs’ who would be bound by duty to bring the misdeeds of Nixon to light. Moreover his diatribe against Nixon was more of a personal vendetta than anything else, retribution for having overlooked him as the Director of the FBI. If he felt that he did the right thing, then why wait 30 years, to reach his twilight years and then come out in the open?

In this whole fiasco, I have respect only for the two journalists, Woodward and Bernstein who kept their end of the bargain by not disclosing their source; they maintained their fiduciary relationship between that of a journalist and his source. If Mark Felt thinks that, being in his nineties he cannot be held accountable for his actions, he is ‘dead’ wrong. If His Excellency Augusto Pinochet can be tried for crimes against humanity in his twilight years then so can Mark Felt. He should be tried for treason, I hereby issue a fatwa, a bullet through the head should suffice.

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