Holy Bundled Software, Batman!

Last week, I installed Netscape 4.79 on a virtual machine to verify my bold claims only to end up with:

Netscape Navigator
AOL Instant Messenger
RealPlayer
Winamp
Netscape Messenger
Netscape Composer

…as well as palm top sync tools and a bunch of utilities. And people tell me Microsoft are bad for bundling software, pfft!
PS. fresh layout

I Loathe JavaScript

Given that my current course module thingy is on JavaScript, I expected to unearth a love for JavaScript that I didn’t know I had. I wanted to use the time to explore the quirks of the language, and its uses beyond the basics which I’ve picked up working in web dev.
Quite by coincidence, a client [...]

Site5 Sold Out

I’ve been using Site5 as my web host for several years now, both personally and professionally, and have had nothing but great experiences. The support team even helped me with my mysql errors despite it being a script issue (before I moved back to WordPress), and the affiliate payout system is financing my hosting 2008-09, [...]

UK Teachers At It Again

A few years ago there was a teacher strike at Karl’s school and I made a few comments on it, inadvertently being quoted on the local newspaper front page. I thought I’d blogged about it but I can’t find the entry so it was probably lost in one of my many DB breakages.
Anyway, the teachers [...]

Telford is Full of Chavs

According to the website of my local newspaper, the mayor of Telford & Wrekin has reacted to comments published online and “has come out fighting against the website for publishing the rebuke.” Come out fighting? Since when is whinging in the local newspaper “fighting”?
I think Councillor Hosken needs to get real. I’ve lived in Telford [...]