Woo! It’s FireFox update day! I’m lovin’ the new features in 1.0PR like the RSS integration, tweaked theme, faster UI, etc. It’s just so much better than Internet Explorer I don’t know where to start. If you haven’t switched, do so now.

If you’re looking for an Outlook alternative there is also FireFox’s sister project Thunderbird . This became my preferred news client after Outlook drove me up the wall with its incessant crashing and generally being lame and un-responsive.

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Adam is back in Edinburgh after his industrial placement at Rolls-Royce. He’s finally had time to do a re-design of his site and has gone for the “oh so cool” photo at top. I hear it’s what all the cool kids are doing…

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The Beasties have a new single out: ‘Triple Trouble’. It uses the hook from Rappers Delight and is just superb. As usual they also have a hilarious video that just has to be seen.

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Yes, the first Mario game came out 19 years ago today in Japan in 1985. To celebrate this I give you these images:

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My ex-colleague from Waterstones, Joe has set up a new blog for the SF book club that he runs at the east end branch in Edinburgh. Expect the usual Joe madness along with some book chat.

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Mozilla have had a bit of a re-design. I like it.

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As you can see (except you RSS feed slackers) I now have a side navigation bar/box thing. You can hide it by clicking the little triangle up in the top-right corner there. I always wanted some more navigation on here but I really didn’t like the menus that I had. But, I don’t want the navigation to clutter up the place. A hideable side bar solves the problems nicely. I did have to use a tiny bit of javascript but it works in Firefox, IE, Camino, Safari and Opera so I’m content

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My good pal Alex has recently been promoted within Waterstones to a buying position based in big ol’ London. He moved their yesterday, on the train, more of an advance party I think. He’ll most likely be without any kind of ‘net connection for a while, but has just got a new bling-bling mobile that comes with a ton of free picture messages. Being the enterprising geek that he is he’s going to put those free picture messages to use with the free photo log service provided by phlog.net. He’s already started documenting his adventures including a blow-by-blow account of his delays on the train journey down. Have a look at what will no doubt evolve into an interesting small-ginger-man-in-London photo-blog.

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Looks like the free .info domains offer wasn’t a scam. Amazing. I now have :

cyber-junky.info
ojackson.info
oliverjackson.info
ollyj.info
ollyjackson.info

all pointing at cyber-junky.co.uk.
Pretty sweet, if a little pointless

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Google is six today! Happy birthday my faithful web searching chum. Also, I’ve got a gmail account and six invites if anyone wants one…

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