Apparently, [tag]Daniel Craig[/tag] (now of [tag]James Bond[/tag] Fame of course), was initially reluctant to take the role of [tag]007[/tag].
…he was understandably reluctant to give up a versatile career to camp it up as British super-spy James Bond – a role not typically associated with serious actors.
Ha! He was in Tomb Raider for goodness sake!
I am of the strong belief that IE7’s Zoom feature is significantly flawed.
The problem is explained at boagworld.com.
The worst result is the that on many sites it will force a horizontal scroll bar! A well known no-no.
The other problem which doesn’t appear to be mentioned there is the fact that background images aren’t scaled, and this can result in illegible text if the colours aren’t defined – not always possible.
The majority of (legit) Windows users may get a shock over the next 24 hours or so as IE7 is rolled out.
How soon until users stuck with [tag]IE6[/tag] start to get frustrated with ‘broken’ websites?
Will it encourage them to get legit copies of Windows?
Of course not, there are too many alternative browsers out there, notably [tag]Firefox[/tag] (my browser of choice).
Have you seen any sites which break horribly in [tag]IE7[/tag]? Or any particularly good examples of new designs?
Dove Campaign For Real Beauty: ‘Evolution’
I don’t think this needs any further comment.
Seconds from now, the US population will hit 300,000,000.
[The latest (projected) figure is visible at the US Census.]
Should they be trying to limit the population?
I think perhaps they should, but will they ever? I seriously doubt it.
Why should they? Because the planet is now in ‘ecological debt’ – we, as a race, are taking more from the planet than it can provide, and Americans are the worst of all. The average US citizen uses 5.3 times what he should. More detail in the BBC Report.
[tags]US, USA, America, Population[/tags]
bbPress is a fantastic example of how the web should be made.
While there are of course a few (minor) issues, bbPress is still a beta / pre-v1 product (0.72 ‘bix’ in fact), and ‘issues’ may actually be simple matters of preference.
If I was to set up a forum I’d use bbPress. But what to talk about?
I genuinely believe that the oddly (and uncatchily) named Real Time Matrix and/or similar services could significantly affect [tag]online[/tag] publishing.
While aggregation and [tag]blog-search[/tag] aren’t new, services like this could change the dynamics of the [tag]blogosphere[/tag] – the big guys might find themselves getting less traffic as the smaller sites get more attention, and hopefully there will be less of the echoing effect recently discussed.
There could also be negative effects – the more underhanded [tag]blog[/tag]s could try and cheat the system, in much the same way as [tag]keyword spam[/tag]ming affected early search engines.
What else could change? What else do we want/need?
All this month this blog will be [tag]pink[/tag], in honour of the wearitpink [tag]Breast Cancer[/tag] Awareness campaign and Pink for October in the US.
Oh yeah, and I am donating as well. 🙂
It has occured to me that [tag]RSS[/tag] (etc) readers should allow the user to [tag]refresh[/tag] the [tag]post content[/tag].
This would mean that if the post is updated, which many often are, those edits would be visible from within the feed reader.
Better: get the reader to check the posts and notify the user if the content has changed.
Even better: allow the user to set a minimum-change threshold, so that if the edit made was for example simply correcting spelling they wouldn’t be notified. But if the update was adding new information then it could trigger.
If anyone knows whether this has already been done, please lmk so I can be suitably ashamed for my complete lack of research.
(Please accept my apologies for the rambling ‘style’ of this post)