In 1998 a man watched his son get soundly beaten in a go-kart race by a very fast young driver. He went to the bookies and asked to put a bet on this kid winning a Formula One race before he reached the age of 23.
William Hill laughed him out of the shop, but Ladbrokes gave him odds of 200-1. After this month's Montreal Grand Prix, where 22 year-old Lewis Hamilton recorded his first victory, the chap called up Ladbrokes to claim his winnings - 40,200 pounds.
...is that our houses are designed to dissipate heat.
So - me being me, I'm naturally trying out the new browser that Apple has release - safari (nothing at all strange about having 5 different web browsers installed at the same time is there?). And apart from the security flaws and dog ugly appearance, do you want to know what the big difference is between it any pretty much every other browser out there?
All the freaking buttons are on the left!
Close tab? On the left.
Okay button on the dialogs? On the left.
Bloody annoying.
Don't like the way it's laid out? Too bad - St Steve doesn't let you do anything to customise the appearance. Want to open a new tab? Gotta use the drop-down menu or the keyboard short-cut.
Still - it's just a browser. One that seems to lack a lot of features - even for a beta - it is a public one after all.
I don't know what others are using to write their blog posts at the moment, but I'm finding that the best thing to use at the moment is a free piece of software from Microsoft called Windows Live Writer.
Setup's pretty straight foreward. Once you give it your blog address it automatically downloads your formatting information. It supports labels for posts as well as a bunch of plug-ins.
The biggest downside to the program at the moment is that it doesn't support uploading photos directly to blogger. But that's supposed to be corrected in the next beta. All in all - a pretty nifty piece of software.
Finally gotten around to watching the show - and I'm really enjoying it. Well - enjoying everything except for the bloody theme song. My god is it bloody annoying!
Why bother even pretending they're anything more that a pretty marketing exercise for one of the big two parties when they're already decided who to allocate preferences to when neither side have fully unveiled their environmental platforms yet?
