Tim O’Reilly writes about the percentages of various web browsers that are use to access the various oreillynet.com web sites. They are currently showing Internet Explorer at 54.66% and Firefox at 35.08%. O’Reilly’s audience do, of course, tend towards the geekier end of the web browsing audience but they tend to lead where the rest… Continue reading Firefox vs IE on O’Reilly Sites
Month: April 2005
Vote for Lib Dems will not let in Tories
An article on the front page of today’s Independent investigates the Labour party’s claim that protest voters run the risk of opening the door to a Tory government. Their conclusion? It’s bollocks. It would take a swing of 11.5% away from Labour for Tony Blair to lose his commons majority, but even that wouldn’t leave… Continue reading Vote for Lib Dems will not let in Tories
Hospital Appointment
Back to the hospital again yesterday for an x-ray and another appointment with the chest specialist. The x-ray apparently shows that my pneumothorax (collapsed lung) which I got from the broncoscopy is almost completely recovered. The full results from the bronoscopy aren’t in yet, but the results they have so far are all pointing to… Continue reading Hospital Appointment
The Results Must Get Through
On election night, Guardian Unlimited will, of course, have all of the results on the site as they are announced. Something as important as this obviously requires people to be here overnight ensuring that everything goes smoothly. And it seems that I’m going to be one of this crack technical team. I’m looking forward to… Continue reading The Results Must Get Through
Don’t Mention The War
Tony Blair is banging on again about how a protest vote against the Iraq war will let in a Tory government. Let’s get a few things straight. If I don’t vote Labour, then it’s not just a protest vote against the war in Iraq. It’s also a protest vote against foundation hospitals, ID cards, top-up… Continue reading Don’t Mention The War
No Point Voting in Brent South
If you’re in the London constituency of Brent South then there’s apparently no point in voting on May 5th. Dawn Butler is standing to replace the existing Labour MP, Paul Boeteng, and her new web site is already declaring her as the winner. I realise that a 17,000 majority might give you a certain amount… Continue reading No Point Voting in Brent South
Doctor Who Satire
Nice little bit of satire in Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who. The Prime Minister was asking the UN for help dealing with aliens who had “massive weapons of destruction” which could be “deployed in 45 seconds”. Made us smile.
Recruitment Agents
Update (October 2011): Time passes and companies change. I should point out that this blog post was written a long time ago. I’m assured by Huntress that they have addressed the issues I mention below and are a much better company to work with these days. It’s certainly many years since I received an inappropriate… Continue reading Recruitment Agents
The Sun Says “Vote Blair”
That’s it all over then. The Sun has this morning thrown it’s weight behind the Labour Party saying that they’ll give them “one last chance”. What, I suspect, has actually happened is that Murdoch’s election “experts” have decided that a Labour victory looks inevitable and therefore the paper is backing Blair so they can run… Continue reading The Sun Says “Vote Blair”
Political Survey
Still trying to get help in working out who to vote for, so I turned to the Political Survey 2005. My results are here. They suggest I vote for the Green Party (which would be unlikely to be honest) but the biggest surprise for me was that they described me as “fairly socialist”. Fairly!