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Stupid Microsoft has yet again shitted the web dev community off with recent announcements about how IE8 will pass the Acid 2 test. Not that that’s the bad thing. The Acid 2 test is like the grand-daddy of browser rendering tests, something that Microsoft has completely ignored despite continual and unabated pleading from the web [...]

In today’s 21st century, electro-networked-decentric world, governed by stuffy, rich old bastards who aren’t in the government or a part of society, whose attitudes toward the global challenges of tomorrow are explicitly ,’not their problem’, it doesn’t surprise me even slightly that at the ‘Fundamentos Web 2007‘, the interoperability presentations were all conducted on different [...]

This global warming stuff is bad and everything – there is a chance that in the next 500 years humans will be gone! We will have fucked up badly. Too many silly, rich, old cunts, all to arrogant to make some deals that would help everyone, and instead adhering to the bitter end, the corporate [...]

Getting such massive charges to stick to any global corporation is no mean feat. But the fact that the charges have actually stuck, and then again on appeal, mean that MS are nothing other than guilty as sin of systemic corporate bastardry – kudos Ballmer and Gates. This is not by any means news – [...]

This morning I got an unsolicited email from ‘Spamarrest‘. Normally, I don’t really bother to publicise my spam, but this one deserves a special mention because in actual fact it’s a spammer pretending to be an anti-spam business. Spammers have now evolved to the point where they realise that in order to become a successful [...]