This is one way to get people to use your browser: hide clues on websites that are only visible to users of IE8 leading to the $10k prize, and to quote the ad “But you’ll never find it using old Firefox”
Microsoft, desperate?
Lines forming for iPhone 3G S which goes on sale tomorrow
Apple’s new iPhone 3G S goes on sale tomorrow, and already lines are forming to be one of the first to get hold of one.
Interviewed at JavaOne – PC World article on Future of Java
It’s not everyday that you find yourself being interviewed, and first day of the JavaOne conference a reporter came up to me between sessions and asked if he could ask me some questions about what I thought about the pending buyout of Sun by Oracle. Article is here. This article was carried by a number of IDG’s technology websites.
End of the world – Twitter clients will fail!
I love these stories about some app that will fail because of a number reaching it’s maximum or other similar ‘reaching the limits’ kinds of issues. Today the worry was that 3rd party Twitter apps would start working because the number of tweets on Twitter had reached the maximum of a signed 32bit Integer. End of the world? Not quite, but apparently a Twitter app on the iPhone has stopped working.