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!
According to Google, they’ve increased the number of pages they crawl to over 8 billion. I wonder though – how many blog posts does this include? 
Talking of blog posts and search engines, I’m debating whether or not to try and implement so-called ‘fancy URLs’ for this blog. Apparently, search engines aren’t too fond of php, but since the weekend I’ve become a big fan!
More Google trivia – the just-released Firefox 1.0 uses a specially branded Google as the default home page.
But best Google news of all award goes to this: Gmail is going to support POP3! Fantastic news! And it’s very interesting that it comes soon after Hotmail is going to ditch its free support for it. Webmail wars eh?
On the 5th of November, Nic wrote:
In other news – Arafat is said to be “between life and death” by the BBC – which is pretty much what everyone is, if you think about it; there really is no middle, because you never see the end.
By today, the 10th, we have:
More seriously, Arafat has moved into a deeper coma today. Officials say he is suffering from a brain haemorrhage (that’s intense internal bleeding) and claim his life is in the “hands of God”.
and now BBC News says: Israel agrees Arafat burial plans
Take a hint people! He is, for all intents and purposes, DEAD. They’re just waiting until they feel like making it official.
I’m just glad we’ve got a US President who has shown so much concern and understanding for the Middle East crisis over the past few years… :rolleyes:
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
