Out of the corner of my eye

I am the windrider!
It was very gusty this morning on the way to work, though the part I feared would be the worst - going across the bridge over the Trent - was relatively calm.
The news this morning announced that there were up to 70mph gales battering N. Ireland and parts of Scotland and Wales, […]

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Philosophy: You may not be happy a user has found a bug for you to fix, but at least pretend you are so they’ll keep on reporting them.

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An article on the BBC, Searching for the truth online, features statements by the self-proclaimed “antichrist of Silicon Valley” Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy”. The main focus of the BBC article is on how user generated web content is often […]

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Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
“A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under […]

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Problem
Company A’s app uses the WebBrowser control to view web pages under its own control, and wants to tightly couple the web page presentation to its app’s look and feel.
User B sets his Internet Explorer accessibility options to “Ignore font sizes specified on web pages“.
As a result, you may get issues where text overflows fixed […]

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Will Smith is great at playing Will Smith, just as Tom Cruise is great at playing Tom Cruise. The Fresh Prince stars in this broadly advertised New Year’s blockbuster, a vampire movie that isn’t really a vampire movie. As far as survival horror goes, 30 Days Of Night was much better. In fact, most survival […]

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