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BBC & Twitter

I’ve noticed that the BBC’s reporting seems to have gone downhill over the past year or so, the information is still there but it’s presented in a much more sensationalist fashion. It’s not as bad as most places but you have to concentrate more to read the articles to get the real message out rather than the headline that the journalist has typed. But even more recently they have started to use twitter to provide quotes as the bottom of the page.

Using twitter to get quotes like that is a) Lazy and b) dull. I don’t want to know that someone’s agent thought it best to post something on their twitter feed, I want to know something that someone has either actually said or actually done. Phone some people up, find out who’s doing what about it, don’t just run a search on twitter and copy and paste, I can do that.

Hopefully the general standard improves soon otherwise I’m actually going to have to read news elsewhere…

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Easter Weekend

With four days off work for the Easter weekend we tried to do some exciting things, on Friday a trip to Bury St. Edmunds was on the cards, Saturday was the Easter Bonnet competition, Sunday was Roast Duck and Monday was Hedingham castle for a medieval battle.

No pictures for Monday as our camera wasn’t working but my Parents go some so I’ll have to wait until I see them again!

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Is the scourge of developers finally on the way out?

Google announced over the weekend that it’s going to stop supporting IE6 in some of it’s web applications. I bet many developers are hoping that this message will finally get through to those *still* using it that there is better technology out there and the should upgrade.

I know that the majority of these users are probably corperate users where they don’t have a choice but if the figures of 20% are still true that is a lot of ancient browsers out there that cause almighty headaches for anyone developing websites now days. Personally as most of the people who visit this site use firefox >46% and I’ve only had 2 visits with IE6 I don’t do anything special but I know that it’s important for proper sites to keep supporting it while people keep visiting them with it.

Imagine the amount of development effort and money that could have been saved if everyone had upgraded two years ago… Come on people give it up!

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Tony Blair faces the music

So today Tony Blair must face the Chilcot inquiry about his involvement in taking Britain to war with Iraq. It seems that Tony Blair has faced most of the questions he’s going to be asked before so I’m not sure that it’s going to as explosive as the media seem to be building it up to.

There was talk that his statement the other day on TV that he’d still have gone to war even if he’d know that there were no (I’m not sure I can bring myself to use the abbreviation…) Weapons of Mass Destruction was a bit of a mistake and that he’s not as sharp as he used to be. I’m sure that he’ll just reiterate what he’s said before - I can’t see that there is going to be any real fallout from this as it all happened over five years ago.

It seems that the more important day will be when Gordon Brown steps up and has to answer questions about his involvement - it’s going to be important for no other reason (to most people) than the fact that there is an election around the corner. With the Tories already out in front it could be bad for Labour.

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Saturday the 9th of January

So Libby was meant to have her party on Saturday, but the weather seemed to conspire against us with a large proportion of the guests unable to make it (some had more elaborate excuses than others :)) we postponed it. But Libby wanted to make it a special day all the same…

Libby decided that she’d take her first steps instead! She had three little steps all by herself and now we can’t stop her! She’s trying to run before she can walk. I am trying to add a video of it but the Video camera has other ideas. It now works!

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