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You’d be surprised how much energy it takes just to hang around in the IT room all evening half-heartedly promoting the school and fully promoting this very website. Good think they gave us the day off to prepare, I suppose.

On the topic of school, I’ve been arm twisted into linking to them. So here you go: Queens Park Community School. It’s great really! (And the site almost validates with w3 too, which is more than you can say for me.)

OK I’m off now, Spanish homework beckons. Oh joy.

Perfectly illustrated here, on the ‘Spread Firefox’ web site:

Look at the text overflow

Now in IE, the words wrap around so that the post doesn’t overflow its space. There’s even a special IE extension to CSS, break-word, to enable this. But in Firefox the text just keeps on going, making it look shit. And it’s a problem on this website too.

If any Firefox wizards know how to solve this, give me a shout?

If you’ve seen this before, I apologise. But the ALICE chatbot has won the prize for most human like conversation for the third time, reports BBC News. It’s rather spooky if you get the conversation pitched right. Chat with A.L.I.C.E.

Oh, and if anyone has a copy of ‘Smile’ by the Supernaturals, send it over would you?

Urm… what else? Well, some strange ‘friends’ of Henry decided to drop me a line. Hey guys, you might like to learn to spell after you’ve figured out how to string a meaningful sentence together? Ah, whatever. Sniff some glue instead.

And it’s officially ‘get well soon’ time for Safia. Something about a door colliding with a knee, I think. Ouch.

I’ve just launched a new page where I intend to showcase my pick of the crop in terms of good, free software worthy of installing. Check it out here.

Currently, my recommended programs are CCleaner, Spybot S&D, Messenger Plus! and GiFFY.

Edit – I’ve also been busy completing my Blogger Profile and updating my Archive system!

Presumably as some kind of reward for doing that ICT coursework I blogged about yesterday, I got to spend a few hours this afternoon with the systems administrator for my school. While it’s somewhat heart-breaking to watching someone joyfully disable every single system privilege they could possibly disable, I’m glad they’ve got someone who understands security.

Well I say that, but 10 minutes after I was asked to test a new group policy, I discovered I could access the documents of every single user on the network. And install programs. Whoops!

Anyway, I’m now almost homework-free for the weekend. Hopefully I won’t do anything stupid, like waste this precious time blogging to no-one Actually, I really must watch these Matrix DVDs a neighbour lent me. (Yeah that’s right, I missed most of the Matrix hype, only catching the first film on DVD years after it came out.)

Oh, and on Sunday Messenger Plus!, a brilliant add-on to Windows and MSN Messenger which allows you, amongst a huge bundle of extra options, to check POP3 email accounts, releases a new version. Download and enjoy!