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I had just been tipped off about BBCi’s new look on Freeview, a much nicer, prettier interface for their digital text services. And then it turns out that my road is on fire. Or, it could be a bit further away, we’re not sure. But wow, big flames – the whole family was watching from the attic window. (It’s like a big family ‘come together in times of pretend crisis’ time.)

And then the fire engines came and put it out. So now it’s back to BBCi.

I just ran Office Update to download SP1 to my copy of Office 2003, which was much harder than it should have been.

Software problems? Nope.
Badly made website? No.
Corrupted download? No way.

No – it was my Office CD. You’d have thought for a piece of software that costs a few hundred pounds they could afford to put it in a non-flimsy case. Yet I was forced to carefully rip the wretched cardboard thing apart just to get at the CD, which had somehow got stuck to the lid.

Moral : Please Microsoft, buy some jewel cases.

Well, I couldn’t revamp one and neglect the other, could I?

The blog is now integrated much more directly into the site, using the same stylesheet and design. ‘An ever more perfect union’ – as Bill Clinton shouted charismatically about 5 times to Democrats last night.

Comments on the new design are, as always, always welcome via the ‘Contact Me’ page or using the new blog commenting system.

I’m lovin’ it!

Timed to go with the site refresh, you can now post comments to my blog.

In case you’re wondering, yes they will be moderated. So behave. Too bad everyone is on holiday at the moment!

I’ve really been trying to improve my site, not just for Internet Explorer but for other browsers as well. And so I installed Firefox today to try and debug in that, and after a lot of tweaking it appears to be almost complete. It’s not perfect, but much more usable than it was 24 hours ago.

Oh, and I love tabbed browsing. I won’t be switching over from IE just yet, but they better damn implement tabbed browsing in Longhorn