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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.

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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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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We Love T-Mobile 3G

I've been running off a T-Mobile 3G connection for the past few days, and it is annoying me. Sure, 500 kbps is pretty good for a wireless connection that's only costing me £5/month, but what's annoying me is the way they have a transparent HTTP proxy that compresses the HTML and CSS, inserts its own JavaScript, and reduces image quality, all in an attempt to save their precious bandwidth.

Fine in theory, but in practice a lot of the sites I want to visit now don't work. We're not just talking 'oh, it looks ...

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