Diary: January 2008

Happy New Year!

Although I'd be tempted to say that things can only get better, a certain political party were saying that 10 years ago, and look at us now. So, good luck with the imminent recession, bird flu epidemic, and global warming that will boil/freeze/drown us all. Happy New Year!

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Here's a fun one

Here's a fun little one for anyone using Safari 3 under windows:

<script>
var r = /[£$]/i;
</script>

That causes an internal error in Safari's regexp logic. Refresh it enough times and you might just be lucky enough for it to crash and burn.

Do let me know if I'm doing something stupid, but looks perfectly valid to me.

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Top Ten Reasons

Everyone loves top ten lists, and I'm now up to four on my Top Ten Reasons To Not Live In A Ground Floor Flat:

  1. People walking past look in
  2. You get lots of spiders
  3. Susceptible to flooding
  4. You will have to give witness statements to police while your girlfriend attempts to resuscitate neighbours who jump off their balconies and land on your patio

Apparently, one of our neighbours was on her way to work at about 7am this morning, when another neighbour opened the balcony door of her flat upstairs. She called to the girl across the car park ...

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Tripe and Miscellanae

Here are some things that I have learnt over the past few days:
  • When selling a car, don't believe dealers who say there isn't a market for your car.
  • When selling a car privately through AutoTrader, it is an absolutely excellent idea to get a PAYG SIM. You can turn it off when you're busy, and now that the car is sold, we can just change the answerphone message and won't have to answer 15 calls a day. Hoorah.
  • If your internet connection drops when Outlook Express is halfway through checking a folder, it won't ...

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