What I hate about this carbon trading thing is that there is this big resistance to it centred around spending money. Certain people are all about the fact that the climate science isn’t bedded down properly and therefore the whole carbon trading thing is a total scam. They feel it’s corrupt because climate change is [...]
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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 [...]
Yeah, Microsoft did this really fucked thing where they changed their email layout renderer in Outlook 2007 from the HTML renderer in IE6, to the layout renderer of Word. There was no real justification for it and the line from MS was ‘Our customers wanted something that rendered layouts the same in their email as [...]
ARSTechnica, posted a stupid article about Radiohead’s free album. P2P vs Radiohead’s “free” Rainbows: why P2P can be a hard habit to break Radiohead’s innovative digital distribution arrangement for their new album, In Rainbows, lets people pay whatever they want for the music, including nothing at all. Despite that, BitTorrent swapping of the album has [...]
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 [...]
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