Microsoft Firefox Professional 2007

Now this is hilarious.

Microsoft Firefox plus MSFirefox Mail Beta, with AKobe Phlash & TakeOver Technology... so many brilliant new ideas, I don't know where to start.

From the site:

Unexpected is good. An exceptional streamlined browsing technology known as the Cut Away Effect™, randomly prevents 9/10 of the browser from rendering properly in order to save system resources. This is not a bug.

Plus so much more. Check it out.

IE7 "on schedule to launch with Vista" (so, like, never?)

There's a flurry of news stories going round at the moment all proclaiming that: "Microsoft appears to be on schedule to launch IE7 in tandem with the upcoming Vista operating system".

Of course, this is hilarious, as are all M$ product launch date estimates.

Microsoft have given so many "official" launch dates for Vista over the last few years that you wouldn't be amiss in thinking this news means IE7 is coming out in a couple of decades.

Currently, Vista is "officially" going to be launched January 30, 2007. Yet only a few months ago, Vista was "officially" launching in November 2006. (Prior to that it had been October, after it slipped from August 31, which it slipped to from June, after it missed "early 2006".. and I could very easily go on for an extremely long time with this sentence, but I think you get my drift.)

Microsoft are still planning the November launch, which they're currently saying will be the date they'll ship Vista to businesses. (Translation/prediction: end of November, pushing December!) However, due to some problems with the build planned for that release, they've now had to work on another build -- which means a fresh round of testing, and, likely, another push-back of the date.

So -- IE7 is to be launched with Vista!

Just do not, under any circumstances, hold your breath.

ABC News: Expecting the Impossible from Microsoft

In his ABC News article yesterday, Internet Explorer 7 for XP Release Candidate 1, Matthew Sarrel writes:

"IE7 has now caught up to roughly where its competitors are now, but where will they be when the final IE7 code release occurs? I would have liked to see innovations in IE7 that leapfrogged it ahead of its competition."

Seriously!

Matthew, honey, Microsoft doesn't innovate -- it copies, steals, lies, & then, when all other avenues are exhausted, it buys the company.

With years of exactly that sort of history behind it, surely we all know this about Micro$oft by now!

CSS PLaY's Pure Css Image Gallery

Way cool -- an image gallery done in pure CSS.

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Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before

Watch Australia shrink away to nothing at this fascinating site, which presents our globe with dynamic territory sizing to show a variety of interesting statistics.

[The pic at left shows the relative proportion of the world's population living in each territory.]

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German Enigma Cipher Machine from WWII on eBay

First debuting in 1918, the portable Enigma encryption machine was picked up by the Germans in WWII to encipher military radio messages & hide them from the Allied codebreakers' ears.

Not many of these babies are still in existence today, however if you've got a spare $30,000 AUD in your pocket, you may just be able to pick yourself up an original when the hammer comes down on this incredible eBay one-off in a few days.

Considering, however, that the price has jumped another few thousand during the typing of this post alone, you may, instead, wish to build your own.

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And she's back!

Howdy, long time, no post.

Today I have been getting rid of the colourful (for want of a better word) spam that have been accruing in the comments for my most recent post.. actually, "recent" really ain't the way to describe a piece of writing from 6 mths ago. Tough; it is (well, it was) the most recent.

I was (apparently) scoring well with Yahoo Search for "cum shots". Ha!! How disappointing for the horny dicks who made it here, only to discover I write about computers, and testing, and other non-naked ambitions.

Most amusing.