At time of writing, there are 644 comments on the announcement of IE7. It was exciting, then, to have Dean send me a note of thanks for my comment. After all – he’s “the guy responsible for IE” – and it just goes to show how much better things are when you glimpse the people behind the bland press releases. Blogs are good for the customer, good for the company and good for the employees. Which is a rare thing.
Anyways, that wasn’t the point of this post. All I wanted to do was lay out my little laundry list of things I want for IE7. You probably have your own, and here’s a fairly long one, but hey. It’s my blog. I doubt they have time to implement all of this, but if you don’t ask – you don’t get.
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Strangely, I couldn’t care less about Prince Charles’ marriage. If we insist on keeping the royals, can’t we at least reform them?
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This is fantastic news. If Microsoft deliver, and that’s a big if, I might even consider moving back from Firefox. I want Windows to have a world class browser built in – let’s hope we finally get one.
Edit – I’m getting more hopeful and excited by the minute… longer post coming soon!
Double Edit – “final version of the Windows Anti-Spyware tool to be made available to all customers of licensed Windows at no charge.” Today is just amazing 
It really is. My mental map consists of ‘Me’ and everywhere else as ‘Other Places’. I think it’s the culture of driving everywhere when I was younger, but say to me “Kilburn High Road” and I’ll start thinking about what it looks like, when I last went and how much money I’ve got to spend there – with not a clue where it is or how I would get there.
But times are a’changing! Armed with my trusty MP3 player (special thanks to Katie for finding my headphones!) I am now walking to all these places, repeatedly, to try and join up in my head where everything is. Which sounds very weird, but I have a capacity to put on my duffel coat, turn on the music and just walk, hopefully not getting mugged. Again, (apologies for the psychoanalysis here) I remember hating going on those agonising treks through Hampstead Heath when I was younger, but it obviously had an effect. I now find it relaxing, and a good alternative to doing work 
I’m still lost on a wider scale though. I go red when someone makes a joke about Americans not being able to find Iraq on a map, because to be honest, I’m not sure that I could. (OK, I’ve learnt Iraq by now!) And capital cities? Are you joking?!? I can’t even get the big English cities correct, let alone anyone else. My dad claims that when he was at school, they had to draw out loads of maps, which probably helped. I wonder if this is a general trend?
Oh, and today’s dual shout out goes to: Ira and Rob. Because they both asked me at roughly the same time.
Jamster, the incredibly annoying company that advertises that stupid ‘Crazy Frog’ every 2 minutes on music TV channels, are 100% owned by… Verisign.
Taking my hatred to a whole new level. Let’s hope the .net domain gets awarded to someone else.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
