Tag Archives: rant

How to Fix Microsoft’s Browser Issues

HÃ¥kon Wium Lie (CTO of Opera): In the area of web browsers, Opera Software has proposed a specific kind of remedy - that Microsoft only be allowed to distribute standards-compliant browsers. Microsoft’s IE is bug-ridden and the company, despite its … Continue reading

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Breakdown of Modern Web Design

Found this tongue-in-cheek look at what a web designers/developers time is spent doing on a project… Funny, but scarily realistic! via

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UK ISPs to Start Tracking Your Surfing to Serve You Ads

Don’t the ISP’s already have a revenue stream?!? I mean I do pay for my internet connection, why on earth would they think that i’d like adverts shoved down my throat as well! O2/Be - you better not be looking … Continue reading

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Is the MacBook Air THAT Bad?!?

Finally, a common sense response to all of these MacBook Air bashing articles. I admit - I don’t want one, i’d rather have a ‘regular’ MacBook or a MacBook Pro, but there are people out there that would want something … Continue reading

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Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools

Although I do have to admit to liking MS Office (and indeed MS Office 2007 is good), I have to agree with this recommendation. There is pretty much nothing MS Office could do that OpenOffice could not do for you … Continue reading

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Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark?

Just read this post on Slashdot: “I registered a descriptive domain name (something like “thesimpledog.com”) and started a blog on it. About a month later I get a threatening letter from a link farmer who owns “simpledog.com” The owner of … Continue reading

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