Archive for August, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
Microsoft have released English, German, Japanese and Simplified Chinese beta 2 versions of Internet Explorer 8. The installer weighs in at 23.1 MB and users will be required to remove beta 1 before it can be installed.
As per the previous releases of Internet Explorer 8, there is compatability mode which allows the sites to render as if they would if you were viewing them in Internet Explorer 7.
One of the things I noticed during the install, is you can import settings from other installed browsers, which was neat.
View: Internet Explorer 8 Screenshots
Download: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
Remember, it still is a beta, so there will be bugs. If you happen to find any bugs, please comment and let me know what you find.
Tags: Internet Explorer
Funds, funds, funds
I was just sitting here thinking about the things I have to pay next week, and how it leave’s no money left over — but that’s life, right?
I remember a little quip my accountant told me, that made me think, it goes like this:
Two things you can never avoid in life is Tax and Death.
Now, whilst this may be true, I beg to differ. One of them you can avoid, which is Tax. If you think about it, people like me work, and pay tax. That tax goes to the Government, which goes to police/hospitals e.t.c. but it also goes to the people not working; people living on the dole.
Which got me thinking, why don’t the people that are on the dole pay tax? The people that work have to pay tax to support the people on the dole, so they should have to pay tax to support the Government, right?
So I think the line should be:
Two things you can never avoid in life is Tax and Death, unless you live on the dole, then your tax-free.
Well, that’s just my little rant for the day, what do you think, should people that are living on the dole pay tax too?
Tags: Government, Tax
SPAM is getting smarter, or people are more stupid
I just got the following email, from admin@microsoft.com with the subject Internet Explorer 7. Now the contents of this email seems legit, but is totally fake.
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Please do NOT click on the link to download the latest version, this goes to some anonymous website, most likely infecting your PC. Always, and I mean always use official, microsoft.com website for any updates.
Happy internetting!
Tags: Internet Explorer, SPAM
µTorrent 1.8 released
I thought I would let people know, that the final build of µTorrent is officially out now. It comes in as v1.8 build 11758. The first thing I noticed about the new build is a new icon, aqua-ish, whilst a minimal change, it still is nice.
You can download µTorrent over here, and for the people that like change logs, it’s also available here.
Well, that’s all for now, happy µtorrenting. Now remember, stay legal :).
Tags: File Sharing, P2P, Software
Movie: Next
The other day Chell and I watched a movie called Next. It stars Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel.
The movie is about a man that can see into the future, but the catch is that he can only see his future, it involves action, murder, suspense. The plot on IMDB states:
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling “winnings.” But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
I would recommend you see this movie, and I would give it 4/5 stars. If you have seen this movie, let me know what you thought.
Tags: DVD