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Recently I’ve beginning to wonder why I try to support IE6 anymore.
Vista and Window 7 do not support Multiple IEs and never will.

So I’ve just had to install XP into a virtual machine, just to test with IE6.  Upon launching IE6 for the first time, I was greated with a broken page.  This broken page just happens to be the first page IE7 users see.

Microsoft is no longer maintaing IE6 user’s experience.
IE8 was launch in March 2009, which means that anyone using IE6 is 2 browser generations behind.

They need a kick up the behind.

There is a website called IE6Update that has a information bar telling people to upgrade.
This seems a little too subtle.

My solution is to display an overlay that hides the current website, and telling them they need to upgrade to Firefox.

Now I don’t have to test my websites in IE6.

Download jQuery.IE6 Now (109KiB)

The download consists of the javascript plugin, css, html, a picture and jquery.

You don’t really need to use jquery to achieve this, you could just include the html in your site.
The reason I didn’t, was to allow the browser to be able to cache it.

Note: This tutorial is based on Html Validator version 0.8.5.2. The details outlined below may not work in future versions.

When I make web sites, I use quite a few different Firefox extensions.

One of the extensions that I use is called Html Validator https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249

This extension is great.
It main use is to validator the html code when you "view source" in Firefox.
It also has secondary benefit is syntax highlighting.

The Problem

However there is one problem that makes my job harder.

Error: oTidyBrowser is not defined
Source File: chrome://tidy/content/tidyBrowser.js
Line: 220

This shows up countless times in Firefox’s error console, making the job of finding other errors really hard.

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I recently stumbled upon RRRRThats5Rs.com

There is a game called "Make the world a Better Place".

The object of this game is to throw a computer away, as far as possible, inspiring others.

As you can see above, the first two throws happen as expected.
However the third throw did not.

Since making the video, the game has reached a score of 2 million.
I think it is safe to say that the game is pretty much end-less.

Their about page explains a lot more about this.

I found myself recently looking for computer games at tesco.com.

Some of the games that I want to get have yet to be released.
I was interested in when they would be released and for how much.

Imagine my surprise when I found out that "Alone in the Dark" was due for release in January 2020.

EA Games launched Command and Conquer: Kane's Wrath,on 24th March 2008,  the prequel/sequel to Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars.

In the past, I have stated that I would wait for this game to come down in price before buying.

If you are interested, you can view previously compared Command and Conquer games

However EA were including a Beta registration for Red Alert 3 in all boxes, which is something that I really want to try when it is released.

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A drug that reverses severe liver damage could be used to treat disease in heavy drinkers who find it impossible to give up alcohol. Scientists developed the drug after discovering a way to prevent the formation of excessive scar tissue caused by cirrhosis, hepatitis and other medical conditions.

To their surprise the drug not only slowed progression of the disease but also reversed damage to the organ.

Source: Guardian

If this makes it to market, it will be a fantastic break though.

Hopefully this research could be adapted to repair the kidneys and the heart.

Fruit Machines can be a fun way of passing the time, but can also be very expensive.

I tend to only play then very occasionally, as you can get hooked very easily.

However if you want to play them, and do not have the first idea of how to play them, or what sort of the buttons mean, then this ebook is for you.

A lot of the information will be out of date by now, but the basics are still as relevant today as they were when this was published.

Download the Fruit Machine – Bandit Bible Ebook (1.35MB).

This file has been virus checked, but please check it with your own anti-virus software.

A 6-foot-tall, one-armed robot named Stair 1.0 balances on a modified Segway platform in the doorway of a Stanford University conference room. It has an arm, cameras and laser scanners for eyes, and a tangle of electrical intestines stuffed into its base.

The next Stair will look for the object in its hand and measure the force its fingers are applying to determine whether it’s holding anything. It will plan an action, execute it, and observe the result, completing a feedback loop. And it will keep going through the loop until it succeeds at its task.

When a computer fails at a task, it spouts an error message. Babies, on the other hand, just try again a different way, exploring the world by grabbing new objects — shoving them into their mouths if possible — to acquire additional data.

Source: Wired.com

Now hopefully this research will advance Computer Vision and Computer Intelligence, and be available to computer scientists.

UPDATE: Command and Conquer: Kane’s Wraith

Recently Apoc (EA Community Manager) commented on the previous article Command and Conquer Compared.

The previous article was written to highlight the inconsistency between CNC3 and previous CNC games. The hope is that EA might fix Command and Conquer 3 or at the very least improve CNC3: Kane's Wrath.

I followed up Apoc's comment with an email.

I didn't have to wait long for Apoc's reply

To be honest, this wasn't the reply that I was hoping for.  However it sounds like Mike Verdu (Executive Producer) did read the article.  Maybe some of the ideas with become reincorporated into Command and Conquer.

Mike's comment about me being a fan of Tiberian Sun is not quite right.  Yes I am a fan of Tiberian Sun, however there were pictures from Red Alert 1 and 2.   I think what Mike noticed was a complete lack of Command and Conquer: Generals.

The reason Generals and its expansion pack Zero Hour didn't feature predominantly in the comparision was because they didn't bring anything to the Command and Conquer genre.  There was no Tiberium, no sidebar and players have to use "workers" or "dozers" to construct buildings.

Command and Conquer: Generals was a playable game, however I personally feel that, along with Zero Hour, they did not deserve to be part of the Command and Conquer genre.

Come on EA, make Command and Conquer the best it can be!

Update: Apoc from EA has responded, for information see Command and Conquer Compared Update

KFC has recently re-launched the Wrapstar.

The Wrapstar contains two crispy stips of chicken, cheese, tostada, pepper mayo, salsa, lettuce, tomato and a flour tortilla.

The Marketing

The Result