like these
AMD run out of magic rabbits and embrace ‘Raiden time’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/02/amd_raiden_time/
Darth Vader patents copper-eating spiders
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/20/letters_2006/
Extra Anus Kills Four Legged Chicken
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/four_legged_chicken/
I want a job at the register
Tags: Geek, MediaGot this today, it appeals for some reason…
Tags: MediaA stovepipe somewhat pees on the paternal short order cook. A ball bearing defined by the skyscraper operates a small fruit stand with a hockey player over the sheriff. A tabloid beyond the wheelbarrow caricatures a squid about a vacuum cleaner. A lover caricatures the fairy related to the bottle of beer, and a worldly chain saw figures out an apartment building. The pig pen from a sandwich seeks a movie theater from a blood clot, but some cough syrup from some football team barely organizes a fighter pilot.
The chess board about the defendant A submarine is South American. Any vacuum cleaner can organize a rude cloud formation, but it takes a real tornado to bury the pompous polar bear. Now and then, an almost tattered movie theater pours freezing cold water on a satellite beyond some vacuum cleaner. Indeed, a briar patch takes a peek at the hairy squid.
A revered polar bear.
Most people believe that a sheriff near a buzzard makes a truce with the spider about another grain of sand, but they need to remember how knowingly a dust bunny daydreams. The lover defined by another hole puncher secretly finds subtle faults with a psychotic sheriff. The familiar vacuum cleaner negotiates a prenuptial agreement with the green dust bunny. Indeed, the barely highly paid salad dressing non-chalantly borrows money from the impromptu CEO. The industrial complex inside an eggplant trades baseball cards with a secretly annoying paycheck.
So Firefox 2.0 was released…
Is it good? Yes.
Is it flawed? Yes.
They changed the way access keys work, it used to be ‘alt’+'key’, now in FF2, you press ‘alt’+’shift’+'key’, fair enough you say, no big change, just have to press shift as well…
There are two access keys in this post, one is “H”, which will take you to my homepage, one is “zero” which should take you to the getfirefox website…
…guess which one works?
The new method doesn’t work with numbers!
try it now (in FF2.0) ‘alt’+’shift’+'zero’…
…going anywhere?
…guess what the UK Government recommend for access keys?
oh well, at least its not IE…
Tags: Blogging, Geek, Rant“Wow, that’s cool - how do I do that?” You may be thinking (Well I did when I saw it)…
If you want to embed a Flickr slideshow in your pages - use this code
<iframe src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=12345678@N00" width="400" height="500" scrolling="no">
Flickr Photo Gallery
</iframe>
where “12345678@N00″ = your flickr ID
Tags: Photography…well, more of a feature - but it’s going to annoy the hell out of some folk.
You can set accesskeys for webpages so that if an IE6 (and other browser…) user holds down ‘ALT’ + any other key, then presses enter - the browser will navigate to a pre-defined page.
Well in IE7 if you hold down ‘ALT’ + any other key then press enter, the browser enters console (full screen) mode.
What you are supposed to do now is let go of the ‘ALT’ and ‘otherkey’ before you press enter - a simple change, but it is going to confuse a lot of people…
…you may be able to change this behavior in the option settings, but I’m so disgusted that I can’t be bothered to look at the minute…
Tags: Geek, Rant, WorkWe’ve got a site in development that uses lists for navigation bars across the page, code very similar to this…
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" dir="ltr" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>IE 7 Bug</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
ul li {display: inline}
a {background: #ccc; margin: 0 1em 0 1em; padding: 2px; }
a:hover {background: #aaa}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Some Link Text</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Yet another Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Guess what?</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A box of frogs</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some Link Text</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Yet another Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Guess what?</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A box of frogs</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
In IE7 beta2 and RC1 when using IE’s new ‘page zoom’ feature - if ugly it at least still worked…
…tried it in IE7 Final…
…guess what - they’ve changed the way page zoom works, and now when zoomed, the ‘hit area’ of the links is not in the same place as the link text…
Screenies…
~@!*%@!rs…
Tags: Geek, Rant, WorkOne of our IT guys asked me about the upcoming release of IE7 and when I thought it might become the prevalent version.
So I did some stat scanning from www.thecounter.com and put this together.
IE6 was released in August 2001 (5 years ago!)
At that point IE5 had 80% of the browser market, IE6 was off the bottom of the scale
By December 2001 IE6 was 19%, IE5 was 68%
By October 2002 they were roughly equal - IE6-45%, IE5-46%
In November 2002 IE6 finally overtook IE5
It took until December 2004 (2 more years!) for IE5 to become less than 10%
However, I’m guessing things will go somewhat faster this time due to more folk being clued up and automatic updates…
…but then there are more ‘lusers’ around too… 
I now have successfully walked my employers through ISO9000, ISO14001 & yesterday did the triple, ISO27001
This means we are accredited as using industry best practices for Quality, Environment and Security.
Woo Yay to me!
They’ll never read this, but big thanks to Ian, Gary, Martin S, Tony, Lee, Helen W, Duncan & Saul and all the rest of the staff at TechnoPhobia who answered the auditors questions correctly and showed a great belief and understanding of the principles of a secure IT management system.
Woo Yay to them!
Incidently, my new job title will either be Security, Environment and Quality systems Manager, or Environment, Quality and Security systems Manager. I just can’t decide which is funnier… (SEQs or EQSs Manager)