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Entries from January 2009

The BBC’s Refusal to Broadcast a Humanitarian Appeal

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments

My own comment in the complaint to the BBC:
I am disgusted and saddened by the BBC’s refusal to broadcast the DEC’s Gaza appeal under the pretense of ‘impartiality’. Regardless of the politics of the situation in the Middle East, it is a cold hard fact that thousands of people are living in refugee camps, thousands […]

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Tags: Politics

So, Israel:

January 17th, 2009 · No Comments

You bomb civilian areas with White Phosphorus  (Image)
Your IDF ignores rulings by your own country’s Supreme Court on allowing journalists access to Gaza
You break the ceasefire (of which you did not fulfill the terms of anyway) then blame Hamas
You ban political parties in your own country because “they support terrorism” and do not recognise Israel […]

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Tags: Politics

My year in cities, 2008

January 8th, 2009 · No Comments

(Idea from Anne van Kesteren)
Nottingham, UK
Oban, UK
Glasgow, UK
Paris, France
Marseilles, France
Tokyo, Japan

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Tags: Travel

Unnecessary IE vertical scrollbar

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

This is covered in a few places for divs but the problem I had was with the top level web page getting a disabled vertical scrollbar that was unnecessary. Funny thing is, in quirks mode it doesn’t appear, and it happens in IE7! (99% of my IE struggles are with 6…)
To get rid of it, […]

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Tags: Web dev