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Windows TV at CES?

Did Microsoft announce their Apple TV killer at CES this year? Rumor was that they were supposed to but can’t remember hearing anything about it.

Wouldn’t this be the 3rd attempt for Microsoft to get in on the set top box game? They originally had WebTV, which when it launched in the late 90’s was ahead of the game until Microsoft bought them out and seemed to take the company nowhere. Then they had the Ultimate TV box launched in 2000, which at the time looked like a strong competitor against TiVo, but only lasted 3 years and again went no-where.

So, third time’s a charm Microsoft – what you got for us this time?

Is it just me or in anyone else noticing that Microsoft just can’t seem to get themselves out of 1st gear? They keep launching product after product, but nothings new or revolutionary, nothing takes the world by storm and then eventually the product fizzles out and dies.

Come on Ballmer, get your act together!

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Switched to WordPress for my blog

Wow, where to begin. I just spent a couple of weeks messing around with Joomla, installing templates and installing/configuring extensions and I got to the point where I had things setup as I wanted. It was a bit of effort to get there, but it was still an incremental improvement from my own home-grown blog software that I’d been using since around 2002.

Someone at work mentioned to have a look at WordPress. Wow. I am stunned. It’s beautiful. It does everything I need, straight out of the box. Easy to install and configure, everything works. Has all the features I was looking for:

  • menus and categories
  • layout templates
  • tagging and tag clouds

Simple needs, but stuff I wanted to use without too much messing around. I like it. Sorry Joomla, I think you’re a couple of years behind where you need to be.

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Fixing Joomla Purity CSS layout issue in Firefox

I just discovered that the jSeblod CCK extension for Joomla has some layout issues with Firefox. Luckily there’s some posts in the Joomla forum with similar issues, although not necessarily related to jSeblod, but the issues are related to the display of HTML tables with the Purity template.

The fix as pointed out in the forum is to add a ‘float:left’ to the CSS for tables. Tracking this down to the exact table being using using Firebug, editing this css file:

templates/ja_purity/css/template.css

and adding this CSS fixes the issue:

table.admintable {
float:left;
}
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