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In a rather surprising turn of events, it seems it’s me
Would it be wrong to list this as an achievement on my CV?

The full TIME story can be read here

I’m having some css problems grrrr

Evelyn

Evelyn and I went to Aberdeen on Monday, but I have a cold so I will blog about that later

While randomly surfing on Tuesday I found a number of websites claiming that IE 7 would be released by the end of the month. When IE 7 was announced over 18 months ago I knew that no matter what Microsoft did, IE would still be a steaming pile of crap but I was hopeful they might rewrite the render engine, support PNG’s and fix the broken CSS rendering. A quick trawl finds none of this has happened. Despite 18 months development, IE 7 is still using it’s 10 year old (but “tweaked”) rendering engine - “Trindent”. Despite 18 months of development IE 7 still has problems with CSS and still fails the Acid test - there are sceen shots here. Oh and while MS are claiming PNG support, other sites call the support “buggy” humm.

But, what about the IE dev blog I hear you say? Yes MS did an interesting thing and setup a blog, for feedback and information about the project, but a quick read shows 100’s of comments about problems, and very few are adressed. Design Detector has a solid list of unfixed bugs, while Windows noob has an interesting look at just how easy it is to make IE 7 the spywere infested mess IE 6 seems to be on computers everywhere.

So after looking through all of this I was a bit surprised to see IE 7 was released this morning. It’s going to be forced out via windows update, but to make it really interesting it won’t run on W2K or NT, so the world will be stuck with IE 6 for at least another 3-4 years.

I’m yet to meet anyone in IT who runs IE at work, unless it’s for applications that only run in IE. I just wish more Corperations would make Firefox their standard. Or OS X

The internet is supposed to be open. It’s supposed to be an easy way to share ideas, thoughts and knowledge. Blogs are a great way to do this. But then there are really crap blogging systems. To all of my friends who run their own blog, or use a blogging system that allows unregistered people to comment - THANK YOU.

To everyone using the newish systems, such as msnblogging (spit), multiply, Yahoo 360, TypeKey and TypePad, please think about changing. If everyone using the crappy systems could move to a more open system such as blogger or even livejournal, you would probably see many more comments on your blogs.

We are in Edinburgh. It’s far far far to hot stupid heatwaves!
Germany, Holland, London and Manchester were fun.
It took us most of a day, 6 trains and 1 ferry to get from Düsseldorf to London but we did avoid any luggage limits

Oh and yes there does seem to be a person playing bagpipes on just about every street corner.

We have a new VW. It’s a large (by Euro standards) 4 seater tall wagon-ish thing so we have lots of space for luggage. Once again Thrifty comes through. I booked and paid for a small-mid size hatch and we got a lot more for our money. It rocks. Top speed seems to be 190km/h, but today we hit 199 downhill. Autobahns rule. I want to hit 200 before we leave. In about 6 hours driving we are yet to see an accident. A Sydney - Canberra - Melbourne autobahn would be fantastic.

And yes, even cruising along at 180km/h Audi’s and BMW’s seem to pass us as if we are standing still.