Is there any way we can unite the global community and ditch IE? Or at least make it catch up with everyone else? I've only been involved in the world of web for a short time - but even for me IE is a massive clumsy thorn in my ass.

I agree with the author about the slightly over-the-top usage of CSS to make graphics - but what bothers me more is the fact that IE may either fail to render your creations properly (c.f. http://bit.ly/aqv6jT from the article), or make perhaps better alternatives (like SVG) unecessarily painful.