Here’s my bundle of Internet goodies for you all:
Anyone up for a game of Blogpoly? How much of a ‘blogosphere’ nerd are you? See how many of these things mean something to you!
But hey, puzzle games are boring and don’t allow you to Beat the Press cruising along to the Daily Show theme tune.
BBC News is reporting interesting things today. Like Glasgow City Council bribing kids with iPods – because presumably the local government is so overflowing with money they can afford to splash out on ‘worthy’ projects like this.
OK that’s it – I’m out of things to link to. Tonight’s (time-shifted) HIGNFY has been \ will be hosted by Marcus Brigstocke – yayness.
Just noticed BT have (finally) upgraded us to delicious 2Mb broadband from 512k. Nice one!
(Wow – after all today’s goodness I bet tomorrow will be shit, just to balance it out perhaps?)
At time of writing, there are 644 comments on the announcement of IE7. It was exciting, then, to have Dean send me a note of thanks for my comment. After all – he’s “the guy responsible for IE” – and it just goes to show how much better things are when you glimpse the people behind the bland press releases. Blogs are good for the customer, good for the company and good for the employees. Which is a rare thing.
Anyways, that wasn’t the point of this post. All I wanted to do was lay out my little laundry list of things I want for IE7. You probably have your own, and here’s a fairly long one, but hey. It’s my blog. I doubt they have time to implement all of this, but if you don’t ask – you don’t get.
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This is fantastic news. If Microsoft deliver, and that’s a big if, I might even consider moving back from Firefox. I want Windows to have a world class browser built in – let’s hope we finally get one.
Edit – I’m getting more hopeful and excited by the minute… longer post coming soon!
Double Edit – “final version of the Windows Anti-Spyware tool to be made available to all customers of licensed Windows at no charge.” Today is just amazing 
Jamster, the incredibly annoying company that advertises that stupid ‘Crazy Frog’ every 2 minutes on music TV channels, are 100% owned by… Verisign.
Taking my hatred to a whole new level. Let’s hope the .net domain gets awarded to someone else.
Jeff DuBowe on Haarlem globetrotters: “One of our favorite spots. Super walking city. I think we were the ones who told your In-Laws about it…” Oct 14, 15:15
