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So, I've finally got round to giving my blog a well needed new design, so, what do people think? I personally think it is a great improvement from the previous lifeless design.

In the course of designing this, I found there were no plugins that displayed the recent comments like I wanted. So I wrote my own. That will, of course, be made public shortly.

This was also far easier to make than the previous one, as when I made that, WordPress was on alpha 3, and the only reference I had to create a style from was the 2 existing styles. Not fun. Now, however, I have a whole codex containing documentation, every function is documented now, which made theming WordPress easy.

With Firefox already at [live number of] downloads, IE is losing ground. Fast.

Now almost 6 months after the inital release of Firefox 1.0, it already makes up for around 10% of web users. Why does this matter? The Gecko engine, which Firefox is based upon, supports many of the latest web standards, whereas browsers, such as IE, which haven't had a major update this millennium, lack some 7/8 year old standards. Also, another matter is important - Security. Although Firefox is not that much more secure than IE, IE's defaults leave it vulnerable to attack, Firefox's defaults, on the other hand, leave it far less exposed.

I'm in no means saying everyone should use Firefox, any browser that supports recent standards is fine in my opinion, such as Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Netscape, Galeon (all based off the Gecko engine), Safari, Omniweb (all based off the WebCore engine, which is in turn based off KHTML) and Konqueror (based off the KHTML engine).

Earlier I found this, it represents my view on several ways, for far too many people the order of doing things is:

1. Ask on forum

When it should be:

1. Google
2. Ask on forum

Why can't you just google... Please... It'll keep us all sane...

So, it's my 13th birthday today, so, I'm now a teenager. Shit. :( And to celebrate? It's the first day of term, but at least there is a theatre trip, so only 4 lessons. :)

I'll post more juicy details later.

Well, not much has happened, I can't be bothered to put the location of all the photos from Majorca, so you aren't seeing them... Apart from going to Majorca, I haven't been doing much.

Now, everybody will have remember my birthday: 20th April, so, you will all, of course, be buying me presents from my wishlist. *Looks hopeful* :P

In other news, Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) has finally had it's release date announced :) So, that's been pre-ordered and will arrive the day after the day before it comes.