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  • IE7 Tip – Reload

    IE7 Tip - ReloadWhen IE7 was designed they took the peculiar decision to split the navigation buttons into three places (if you include the home button).

    If you find yourself up in the top left wanting to reload, just click the drop-down button and select the current page (will be highlighted and have a tick-mark on the left), as shown in the picture.

    Bizarrely and unfortunately, this only works if you’re not looking at the last page in your navigation history for this tab. This suggests that it’s only through poor programming logic that it works at all.

    [tags]IE,IE7,Microsoft,tip,tips,browser,flaw,bug[/tags]

  • Firefox Tip

    I discovered yesterday that [tag]bookmarks[/tag] in [tag]Firefox[/tag] can have no name.

    Seems pointless? Not if the sites have [tag]favicons[/tag]:

    Firefox Bookmark Favicons

    Space saving, so you can see more, hence fewer clicks.

    The above are jazzle.co.uk, The Sketchup Components Collection, bit-tech, ebay, amazon, radiotimes.com and the default icon (for a site with no [tag]favicon[/tag]), but you knew that of course since you recognise the sites’ icons.

  • Deviance

    Deviance is both admired and admonished, desired and deplored.

    While growing up deviance is bad: “don’t break the rules” and good: “don’t succumb to peer-pressure”.
    During your career deviance is good: “think outside the box” and bad: “you must follow protocol”.

    So why is the word deviant so often assumed to mean criminal?

  • BA drops ban on wearing crosses

    BA has announced that it has changed its rules regarding [tag]religious[/tag] items its staff can wear.

    As with many [tag]rules[/tag] and [tag]law[/tag]s, problems only appeared because they were far too specific.
    English law has the benefit of the word ‘reasonable’, allowing sensible flexible rules.
    Had their rules simply said “non-uniform [tag]cultural[/tag] and religious [tag]jewellery[/tag] and attire should be kept to a reasonable minimum”, they could later point to that and say “we feel that what you’re wearing is in breach of these employment requirements” to whomsoever they thought necessary.
    By singling out groups they were bound to create inconsistent treatment, or in other words: negative [tag]discrimination[/tag].

    They could even simplify their rule even further to “staff must wear the uniform as it is specified, any deviation should be within reason” – eliminating the references to [tag]religion[/tag] and culture all together, thus avoiding the inflammatory issues.

    I feel that the underlying issue here is that people are finally sticking up for the majority.

    I may be being cynical, but it is convenient that this announcement was made during the current [tag]Celebrity Big Brother[/tag] ‘racism’ scandal, thus not being the un-PC story de jour.

    BBC NEWS | UK | BA drops ban on wearing crosses

  • Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions

    Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few lines of computer code, need I say more?

    [tags]MS, Microsoft, CO2, emisssions, kyoto, abatement[/tags]

  • Daniel Craig, Actor

    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!

  • IE7’s Zoom Feature

    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.

  • USA Population Hits 300m

    US Population Hits 300mSeconds 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]

  • Working Nights

    My girlfriend is starting her first week (7 days) of night shifts, and I’m going to try to do the same hours.
    I work from home, on t’intraweb, so why not? I’m going to see how well it can work, if there’s anything which makes it difficult.
    (For example, we’ve already been woken up twice by the doorbell.)

    Obviously I shouldn’t be awake right now, but I am – we’re in the transition phase.

    UPDATE: (17 hours later)
    I’ve actually had a reasonably productive, er, shift. I don’t really know why, but I had longer periods of concentration than usual.
    I did sleep (or at least doze) in the afternoon, and so I’m not even feeling that tired right now. I’ll probably sleep well today though as I will be needing it.