I have started moving from using mostly Netscape to mostly Mozilla. This is still a
difficult task for someone who works for a web company with
designers who worship at the alter of flash
and DHTML.I have
persevered (with bug reports) where previously I would have
gone back to Netscape. Mozilla 0.9.5 is certainly an
improvement on any previous version though there's still
room for improvement (I know, I know, get on and do it then!)
Fortunately for Bryce there has been a reprieve for
Piranha. Various bits of PHP and C lie in patch files
on my machine not looked at for a week. I'll wait until he's
really busy to send it to him :)
The shift in excitement (away from Piranha) has been caused
by Web Services and my current role as evaluator of
company policy. I thought web services was something we'd
been doing all along - since we're a company in the services
sector doing web stuff... how wrong was I? The basic
framework is extremely exciting and putting aside the huge
hype that currently exists around Microsoft
.NET and loking at offerings from other companies I've
realised this whole revolution has been going on for ages
and totally bypassed me. I am swamped in material on XML,
UDDI,and long whitepapers produced by IBM.
Those in the UK and with an interest in Digital TV and
Public Sector Broadcasting should check out Oftel's
Review of pricing of conditional access services and
related issues. There are various questions in here that
Oftel raise and responses can be emailed to them.
Had a car trauma day on Thursday. Noticed cracked windscreen
as I was dropping car off for MOT (32 quid), lead to me
spending part of the afternoon at Autoglass getting a new
one (60 quid), and then having to go back to the garage as
I'd left my debit card there and they'd given me the wrong
MOT certificate. When all this was sorted, about 4pm, I got
to the Post
Office to buy the car tax and found they don't take
plastic. Nearest ATM was at Cribbs so fought through end
of school holiday traffic hell there and back to get
cash and finally the tax disc. Got home at 5:30 feeling
exhausted and as if I'd wasted my day off work.
Just remembered I have 25 days till I go to the US... now
where's my passport?