New Zealand has a tradition of succeding when others with more resources and money fail. The sports field is a clear example of how our tiny nation takes on the giants of the world and often triumphs.

The #8 wire attitude has become legendary helped by Gallager (electric fence), Hamilton (jet boat) and in more recent times Britton (super bike).

Now in the infromation age there is a new kiwi taking on the world: Ben Goodger is the primary engineer on the Mozilla Firebird browser project. There are plenty of technical reasons to use Firefox. However, most users don’t care about this until they are given a demonstration or have some (security panic) reason to change.

This is an appeal to kiwis out there: cut down the tall poppy. Download and install Firefox, if for no other reason than to support the underdog.

This is not the reason I use firefox: I’m not someone who hates microsoft just because they are a large company. I genuinely believe that firefox is a better product than internet explorer.