Web 2.0, let the world vandalise your website!
Before Web 2.0 was ever mentioned, I'd closed guestbooks, disabled comments, blocked shoutwalls and with one or two specific exceptions, stopped people writing things on my websites.
There were two reasons;
1. Spambots.
2. Idiots.
"You don't have to be religious to hate others but it helps"
Just a phrase that popped into my head. I'm not going anywhere with it, but according to Google nobody else has ever said it before, so I'm blogging it to be first...
Thinking of writing a new programming language?
Here's some advice; Don't.
However good your vision, however clever you are, your time would be better spent improving an existing language. FACT!
If you go down to the woods today...
... it's not just the deer that are abroad...
I spent the weekend helping organise a major horse riding event next to Exeter racecourse on Haldon Hill. This entails driving around woodland in a four wheel drive, tying bits of brightly coloured tape to trees and a few direction arrows on the saturday and, as it turned out, getting locked in the wood because I wasn't given the right key. Anyway - problems to be solved, we got out after a few hours with the course mostly marked.
Firefox 3. Unusable if you use web cameras?
I raised a bug over a month ago with the FF3 release candidates, and so have multiple other people, it was raised to critical recently but the decision has been made to rush out FF3 without resolving a serious bug that affects us all who use Ip Cameras.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373701 (And the others)
Put simply; if you visit an mjpeg stream then that stream will never terminate. No matter if you close tab, navigate away or whatever.