---
title: >
  It's a Weblog Entry!
date: 2005-01-08 02:48
status: published
description: >
  What - the title isn't descriptive enough?

tags: university, Mozilla, York, web browsers, the Web, software, Opera, Internet Explorer

links:
  - url: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~gkn500/
    title: >
      Mooquackwooftweetmeow B
    description: >
      My university webspace, to which I have access when at uni
    rel: related
    type: text/html
  - url: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4122067.stm
    title: >
      Dome hosts homeless for Christmas (BBC News)
    rel: related
    type: text/html
  - url: http://getfirefox.com
    title: >
      Get Firefox
    rel: related
    type: text/html
  - url: http://getthunderbird.com
    title: >
      Get Thunderbird
    rel: related
    type: text/html
  - url: http://snapshot.opera.com/
    title: >
      Opera (8.0) Beta
    description: >
      It can talk Americanly!
    rel: related
    type: text/html

---

<p>
OK, so the normal service has been a bit thin on the ground. Aaanyway... I'm back off to university tomorrow (Sunday); any new text and/or other whatnot will appear at <a href="http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~gkn500/">Mooquackwooftweetmeow B</a>, my university webspace.
</p>
<h4 id="h-meanwhile">Meanwhile</h4>
<p>
It took them four years, but this Christmas <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4122067.stm" title="Dome hosts homeless for Christmas (BBC News)">the people in charge finally cottoned on</a> to the idea of putting two and two together, where the first <q>two</q> is a lot of homeless people in London and the second <q>two</q> is an empty Millennium Dome.
</p>
<h4 id="h-mozilla">Over in Mozillaland...</h4>
<p>
Some guys decided to call <a href="http://getfirefox.com" title="You know the drill by now - Firefox is good; you should get it, or if you already have it continue to use it">Firefox <q>1.0</q></a> for a change. It seems to have worked. Then some other guys did the same with <a href="http://getthunderbird.com" title="Again: Thunderbird is not bad; it is less bad than some other email clients and has a cool logo">Thunderbird</a>; that also worked reasonably well. And then roughly 20 million people downloaded them and they saw that they were good. And they divided the Firefox and the Thunderbird from the other applications; the Firefox and the Thunderbird they called <q>cool!</q> and the other applications they called <q>less so</q>. And lo Internet Explorer became without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of its developers. And Bill said <q>let there be users</q> but there were no users, for they saw that it was bad. And the grace of web standards be with us all. Amen.
</p>
<p>
Or something like that.
</p>
<h4 id="h-opera">And in Operaworld...</h4>
<p>
They made <a href="http://snapshot.opera.com/" title="Opera (8.0) Beta">a browser that can talk like an American</a>, but it still insists on trying to sell me things I don't want, and I can't stop the browser or webpages from doing it. I guess they're firmly targetting users who can't see.
</p>
<h4 id="h-happynewyear">Oh! And...</h4>
<p>
It's 2005, you know - happy new year to everyone.
</p>