It’s time to finish these diaries! Eton – Saturday 9th July – the close. We had our last breakfast and then arrived for a talk about ‘applying yourself in interviews’ which might have been dull without the brilliant sketch in the middle. There was also stuff about applying to university complete with a mock UCAS form “that you can try filling in right now!” Wow, they’re keen… 
My parents then arrived sparing me a coach journey back, and then we got to our grand presentation that we’d been practising for, ur, the best part of two days! Despite the slightly sombre tone the London bombings had given us Matthew and I still got people to laugh (it’s all in the charisma – not the script) and we finally got our hands on those all important certificates. Plus a nice CD of all our music work. Hurrah!
So that was it really. I have actually kept in touch with a few people, especially the lovely ones who said nice things about this website 
and Atif, who’s carried on the marketing debate via email. I leave you with a Guardian article about the whole thing.
Getting away from all the technical posts – I saw this film the other day and it was really quite good Johnny Depp is fantastic, I kept trying to see Captain Jack (from Pirates of the Caribbean) beneath Willy Wonka but he just transforms himself for each role. And the music was much better than the Gene Wilder film… only thing I didn’t like was the extra ‘backstory’ (it made Willy Wonka too human – I was never convinced that he was!) and the use of ‘candy’ \ ‘Band Aid’ \ other Americanisms all the time. Oh, and the timeline was rather odd – the factory didn’t close a mere 10 years ago! Did it?
I wonder if they plan on making the sequel. Could be a bit claustrophobic if they stick to long scenes with everyone trapped in the glass elevator – but I’m sure Tim Burton could work his magic if need be.
And on a completely unrelated note – after being completely drenched in the rain today I hope no one ever dares to complain about teenagers wearing hoodies ever again.
Hello and welcome to the brand new redesign! Now, it’s still in beta and there are a load of bugs to work out – especially in the first few hours as I get all the links working. So hold your fire if something doesn’t work!
Everyone who builds websites…
1. STOP
2. READ THIS
3. SMILE
The Internet Explorer team explain on their weblog how the final version of IE 7 will improve standards support:
In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can, and we will add the critical most-requested features from the standards as well. Though you won’t see (most of) these until Beta 2, we have already fixed the following bugs from PositionIsEverything and Quirksmode:
* Peekaboo bug
* Guillotine bug
* Duplicate Character bug
* Border Chaos
* No Scroll bug
* 3 Pixel Text Jog
* Magic Creeping Text bug
* Bottom Margin bug on Hover
* Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
* IE/Win Line-height bug
* Double Float Margin Bug
* Quirky Percentages in IE
* Duplicate indent
* Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
* 1 px border style
* Disappearing List-background
* Fix width:auto
In addition we’ve added support for the following
* HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
* Improved (though not yet perfect) <object> fallback
* CSS 2.1 Selector support (child, adjacent, attribute, first-child etc.)
* CSS 2.1 Fixed positioning
* Alpha channel in PNG images
* Fix :hover on all elements
* Background-attachment: fixed on all elements not just body
It won’t pass the Acid2 test though – although neither does Firefox
1. They’ll be a beta test involving regular users with special logons and fancy passwords.
2. The new look features ‘Indian Red’
3. Everything will validate. Everything!
4. Current bugs include a chilling demonstration of Internet Explorer 6’s ‘guillotine’ bug – recently fixed in IE7
5. It’ll knock babble’s socks off.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
