There's an excellent summary by Ethan Marcotte of the workarounds by Microsoft and other vendors to the IE changes mandated by the Eolas ruling . This is a particularly evil mod that MS are making to IE 6 to cripple clean use of plugins (cf RealOne , Macromedia Flash , etc.) without changing any code […]
The headline says it all: Celtic take Old Firm spoils . Had I not previously renounced my Catholicism, I'd probably be saying something like "oh, it's a glorious day to be a tim", but I won't. Much. :)
Classic, "what if there had been a Spectrum joypad ..."
meg has managed to keep me awake for the last half hour or so with her album cover challenge , where she has skilfully photoshopped out immediately identifying features from 60 album covers, i.e. the album title and artist(s) name(s), and asked everyone to figure out what each of them is. I've managed 17 out […]
I admit it, I'm a pedantic sod, and here is the proof .
My paternal grandmother Ella Anderson died this evening, only about two hours ago. I knew her pretty well, but probably not as much as I'd have liked. She's been in hospital through in Edinburgh for the last couple of months trying to fight off infections after what the doctors couldn't decide was a stroke or […]
John Cleese on fame, Python, ranches and kids: "Put it this way," said Cleese. "In England, in terms of well-known-ness, I'm Newcastle United. Over here, I'm Bristol City..."
I just tried eating a Cadbury's Flake Snow , and it's awful. I'm not a big chocolate eater, I have maybe 3 or 4 bars of chocolate a month, and one thing I don't like is white chocolate , which a Flake Snow has on the inside — it's more like a Twirl than a […]
The ' Skins went 2-1 this weekend after losing to the NY Giants in overtime . Come on, guys, don't repeat last season! The next game against the Giants is in December at Meadowlands - I smell revenge!