I nearly lost half my redesign of onlinetools.org, the half finished translation of the unobtrusive JavaScript course and lots of job-related experiments and tryouts when I was clumsy enough to spill a whole cup of coffee onto my company’s Thinkpad T40.

One hour of the opened laptop in front of a huge fan helped to boot the Bios and another half hour of the harddrive alone on the fan made it work again.

I will get me one of these as soon as I can find it at an affordable price. And yes, I did back up the data onto my USB caddy and the server.

Could it be saved by the fact that I don’t use sugar and only soy milk?

I just stumbled upon a picture on deviantart that was done in MS Paint in 500 hours.

And I thought I waste time. Don’t get me wrong, the skill is amazing and hats off to the man, but why use MS Paint for a job like that?

I am very pleased to see the numbers of visitors on my Unobtrusive JavaScript self training course, and I am currently translating it to German. I realised there was no way to leave a comment yet, and going through emails is tiring sooner or later, so let’s start a post here instead. :-)

I just read this wonderful request for a chicken cam on the evolt.org list, and I consider it a great idea. I’ll be glad to help with the web site code, granted I can add a Gonzo picture somewhere. :-)

Partly related to that: The chinese have found a way that enables you to stroke a chicken over the web (Ananova). A video of that stunt is available on the republica site in italy.

It seems that the new Netscape browser does use Firefox as the main engine but renders with the MSIE engine on windows when the “site is relatively safe”, according to Yahoo news.

Does that mean when I want to use the CSS2 support in Firefox and allow Netscape 8 users to see the effects, I also need to send a trojan via some malicious JavaScript?

IE remains the dominant browser, but many users complain of its numerous security vulnerabilities and lack of modern features like tabbed browsing, which lets you visit multiple Web sites without opening multiple browser windows.

Firefox addresses those issues, but some sites won’t work because they’re tailored for IE. The new Netscape, which is only available for Windows PCs, addresses that quandary.

So instead of letting the developers tailoring for IE exclusively feel the impact of their arrogance by losing visitors, we make the browser more forgiving again. Thank you, Netscape!