Since the empeg-car is going to become part of that product line, I've just spent a few useless minutes trying to navigate Rio's awful, awful website (www.riohome.com) to no avail... Has anyone been able to get past the front page on this thing? It's probably because I'm running Netscape on Linux, so the "site designed to work on IE5.5 on Windows" won't behave.

I sure hope the empeg fellows keep their site up for the indefinite future. I can navigate theirs no problem. I hope I never have to try to get past the front page on Riohome.com to download software updates for my empeg, though. It just won't happen.

Why oh why do companies believe that a flashy-but-useless-and-hard-to-navigate website is so much better than a simple-but-easy-to-use site? Never mind, I know the answer.... ("First, we kill all the marketers.")