February 13, 2012

Internet Explorer 7

I’ve installed the latest release candidate of IE7 on my laptop. It’s fairly impressive and has some features that are similar to Flock and Firefox. The most obvious improvement on previous versions of IE is the implementation of tabbed browsing. It takes a while adjusting to the look and feel, which will make the transition [...]

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Performance blogging

I’ve discovered a new blog gadget called Performancing. It includes a Firefox extension that enables blog posting from the browser and formatting. It works with Word Press and seems a nifty tool.

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Zenwalk Linux

I’m testing Zenwalk Linux at the moment. It’s a fast minimalist distribution that provides one application for each task. It uses the XFCE window manager and includes my favorite programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, the Gimp and OpenOffice. I’m unfamiliar with the Slackware package management, but it seems simple enough, although there aren’t many in the [...]

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Houses torched in cricket conflict

Cricket is a marvellous game. It ignites passions, as this report from the CricInfo web site confirms: Nearly 400 people have been injured in a village in Bangladesh in a series of clashes over controversial umpiring decisions in a cricket match between two rural teams. At least one man is reported to have died while [...]

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Election result

Sixty percent of the vote has been counted and I can’t win a seat on council. This is my official “concession”. I’ve opened a beer and will fire up the barbie soon. Life goes back to normal. I’m actually relieved that I didn’t win. That shows, I suppose, I’m not a very good politician!

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