Alternative to Speedlimit Signs

Even I wouldn't go around violating speedlimits when we get the 'Denmark' sign here in Holland.....

Speed Bandits

Slighty NSFW

via vkmag.com

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Internet Explorer 7 annoyances

I noticed today that Internet Explorer v7 showed up as a critical download (according to Microsoft). Since I like to experiment (I know... it's wrong), I decided to give it a try. What can happen? I use Firefox as the default browser. I played with IE7 in Vista RC2, and seemed (!!!!!) to work fine. After installing it, I might have lost all my bookmarks, or perhaps I didn't have any to start with in IE6 :) . Anyway, that's something to remember when I upgrade IE on my laptop from work. Here are some annoyances I ran into:

• Clearview Lame ass anti-aliasing. I thought I had some sort of eye-disorder. (can eventually be switched of in the advanced options, and it needs a restart of the browser).
• Anti-phising More pop-ups asking stupid questions... Somehow it wanted to check my own website against a phishing list.... disabled it immediately.
• Flickr bagde Can't get it to work in IE7. Not even if I remove all security restrictions. So if you don't see any pictures in my flickr badge, it means you're using a fucked-up browser. Solved: I needed to install the Flash player component AGAIN especially for IE7 (/me wonders why IE7 doesn't mention that it doesn't have the necessary components to view the page correctly)
• Menu bar Is disabled by default, and if you enable it, it's not at the top of your window (???)
• ....

Strangely enough, WordPress seems to work fine, since I'm using IE7 to write this post. (correction: when I wanted to submit this post, there was an error on page according to IE7....) Well, back to good-old Firefox 2.0, and leave all the IE7 annoyances behind me :D. Conclusion: Microsoft created a great (visual) copy of Firefox. Too bad that they had the urge to add bugs and annoyances to it. I can hardly wait for Vista and the new Office suite :)

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Back home

Yesterday we got back from Africa. The trip was great, but kinda different, because of the things we ran into (literally at one time). Anyway, we made about 3000 digital photos, and shot about 5 hours of film. Here are some samples:

It's time to wrestle through the thousands of pictures and upload them to Flickr. More on our Africa adventures in about a week (or so).

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