No sooner do I install it but they issue an upgrade! The superb open-source Nucleus issued v3.15 a few minutes ago, and seeing as I had nothing better to do than homework, I installed it!
He may be a self-centred, egotistical, pompous buffoon but he’s still the nation’s favourite Tory MP. Whatever you think of him, it’s hard to deny that the episodes of ‘Have I Got News For You’ hosted by Boris Johnson were some of the best of all time.
However, let’s move on to – junk food! Yes, the government seems to have chosen to do something about this instead of tackling smoking. (Seems to be one or the other apparently. Can’t we have both?) A ban on junk food ads before 9pm would be brilliant, IMHO, mostly because it would piss off the big companies who make their money by feeding kids crap.
It would also signal the end of that Coco-Pops jingle, which I can’t get out of my head now! See – advertising works!
When this site first debuted its new style in July, I distinctly remember Nic’s comment about the menu. “It’s shit!” Well now I’ve made a new one. It’s smarter, cooler and hopefully soon to be certified Nic-friendly!
It also taught me a lesson about IE and Firefox – IE thinks dotted borders in CSS are dashed. What’s that all about!?! Luckily I actually wanted a dashed border, but it’s still a howler of a bug.
Another great site: The Forbidden Library – Banned and Challenged Books. Find out why some tried to censor such shocking material as 1984 (“pro communist”), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (“portraying animals and humans on the same level”), Anne Frank (“a real downer”), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (because it doesn’t adhere to “Christian values”?!?) and The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss (“criminalizes the foresting industry”).
Yup, you guessed it folks. It’s an American site. “Land of the free!” (Those will be my last quotation marks for today, I assure you.)
The worst thing about Play.com is that I always end up with a huge set of bookmarks for DVDs I ‘must get round to buying.’ Currently, this includes The Office Christmas Specials, Shrek 2, Fahrenheit 9/11… and more that are too sad to admit to 
Many of these will be purged as Christmas pressies of course. But it’s still really mean, because I was planning to donate to a bunch of people who make great software available online for free. I will do it though! Promise!
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
