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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
No entries for weeks? That can mean only one thing - it's business as usual at chateau radiac.
Well, not quite; last week we had a couple of days off and went down to Bath for the day. Went into the bath spa thing for a couple of hours - was very relaxing, especially the steam rooms. Then went over to Shakeaway and had a wander round looking for pigs:
I have also finally joined twitter, so add me or follow me whatever it is you do on this thing.
In my free time over the past few weeks I've ...
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Seen moments ago:
rm -rf /usr/lolcat/nginx
That's some serious typo skills - some part of my brain meant to write that. You know that bit in that show where that guy realises he's going insane? I'm that guy.
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The Firefox developers have their security and usability priorities all muddled up. You can't access my self-signed website, but I can steal your passwords without you even knowing. And they think this makes your browser better.
In Firefox 3, they introduced stricter SSL certificate checks that give you an error page that you can't turn off. It's a usability nightmare if it's a site you want to get in to; there are 4 mouse clicks, all over the screen to add the site - amusingly, 5 if you only want to add it temporarily. Reminds me of ...
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Here's another fun little flash/ie fact: putting a 1x1 swf inside a 1x1 iframe fails in IE, at least if you want to use ExternalInterface. It seems that the iframe has to be 18px by 18px - and Google and I have no idea why. Any suggestions?
Update: It's just callbacks that are unavailable, and the iframe seems to need to be on the page. No workaround found, I'm afraid.
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Has anyone else noticed how the RMT only ever strikes when it's sunny?
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