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My websites now validates to XHTML 1.0 apart from this blog. Honest, it’s very close to validating but there are just some annoying bugs that are near impossible to fix without ripping up the Blogger innards.

Will has asked me to mention that the London number 12 buses are being replaced. This means nothing to me, so I refuse to put it in my blog. Whoops…

After watching yesterday night’s taped Have I Got News For You I wanted to find the American equivalent in laugh out loud political satire. And I’ve found it. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central is utterly brilliant and, best of all, you can watch loads of clips from each show online for free. Take note BBC, you need to get him to appear on HIGNFY sometime!

Good things: Bonfires, burning George W Bush on the fire, parties, hot dogs

Bad things: Fireworks, The Simpsons on Channel 4*

*I mean honestly. You can’t fool us, there are adverts now! Adverts are bad! DVDs are advert free, and you get the best episodes of The Simpsons anyway around seasons 4 and 5.

I liked the BBC News headline today: US vote ‘mostly free and fair’

Blogger is finally back online so now I can try and shove Bush out of my mind to briefly mention Firefox.

I have Firefox installed and up to date on my PC. I love tabbed browsing, I like the CSS handling and some of the features are better laid out than IE. However, for the majority of my time I am sticking to Internet Explorer. SP2 is a huge reason for this, I think the Information Bar is a wonderful tool and it helps me daily. Yeah Firefox has a clone, but it’s not nearly as well designed.

I am delighted that Firefox is gaining ground – I want that trend to continue so that Microsoft finally decide to update IE. I want a huge update, I want IE 7.0 to be XP compatible (at least!) and, like everyone, I’ve got a very long wish list of features. C’mon guys, make the best browser you can filled with new and *innovative* new features in the same vein as Firefox’s brilliant ‘Live Bookmarks’. Proper PNG compatibility wouldn’t go astray either, if only to view Nic’s new blog with properly!

As I write, Kerry is about to admit defeat in the US Presidential Election. Bush is now handed a further 4 years to carry out his Third Reich policies. I can not put into words how much hate I have for this man, and disgust at the slightly-bigger-than-half of the US voters who are clearly incapable of making a sensible decision. The far right religious faction is hugely scary and has proven itself to be a vehicle for evil. Well congratulations, bastards. You’ve poisoned all the hope in the world that America could pick itself out of the gutter of the last 4 years.

It really was ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ – hiya, welcome to ITV3, here’s our DOG now let’s get on with a film.

Dead Ringers: the US Election Special, on the other hand, was brilliant. Especially the fake campaign ads and the Fox News segments. “Perhaps John Kerry kills people with his chin?” And the hilarious Michael Moore hunts down Michael Moore. “Why is he laughing? Especially when I’m playing this sad music, and inter-cutting the footage with shots of bad things happening?”

Well, nothing exciting happened today. The world is on hold until Kerry beats Bush. So I’ll shut up now.