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This blog is officially dedicated to Kareem, Joshua, Jason and everyone else at QPCS who has embraced randomism in a huge, heart-felt way, and requested a shout out in this here blog. Go random things, like leather trousers and eating scorpions!
(Don’t ask, just don’t.)

I’m also exhausted at pumping out yet more coursework (History is the culprit tonight) and having… SHOCK HORROR… run out of printer ink! Ah well, the role of women in World War Two looks so much better when it’s faded ink on the page, don’t ya think? No, neither do I. It’s the tiredness talking.

In IT news today, you will no longer be able to check your Hotmail from Outlook or Outlook Express without paying, which makes be even more glad I moved off that rubbish system ages ago. Could it be anything perhaps to do with the fact that you only get the ads via Hotmail.com? Well, they claim it’s to stop spammers, apparently. Judge for yourself.

Well, I tried and failed to purchase the domain ‘dominic.me.uk’ – and so decided to upgrade my hosting account instead. Why? I’m not too sure. I think I just felt the need to spend money on something tonight!

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.