Monthly Archives: April 2005

UK Politics survey for the General Election

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UK 2005 political survey
This is a phrase I never want to hear again (!):

Based on the answers you’ve given us, on this axis, we judge that of the well-known ‘papers, readers of The Daily Star / The Daily Star of Scotland have views most like yours.

This shocking phrase comes from an analysis of my political views [results shown above] as analysed against those displayed by the ‘general’ population and by the UK newspapers. It’s less a ‘Tell us your favorite food when eight years old and we’ll tell you what age you’ll likely die” kind of online survey, but attempts to be a serious view of some of the issues that are driving the 2005 election. Of course it is problematic to attempt to categorise the views of blocks of voters, but all those who fill in the survey input what their perceived views are , ie ‘middle, left, right’ and a few in between, as well as what paper they would/do read, meaning that with more participants, the survey becomes ever more accurate.

Political Society Survey

My Results

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Getting old: getting real

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“It doesn’t happen all at once,” the Skin Horse said. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.

“Generally, by the time you become Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

Natural aging is fashion’s new wrinkle

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Unusual forwards: Love in God

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I normally hate forwards because they usually ask you to put your name down on a stupid list that no-one will ever read or ever care about. They ask you to read through lots of text to get to a simple and obvious conclusion: the world is harsh. This forward though, not completely different from all the others in that it asks to be emailed on to other people, is far more grabbing due to its language.

It came with this line: “patrick….if u want to learn portuguese…translate this.”

Nos momentos silenciosos, adore a Deus.
Nos momentos dolorosos, confie em Deus.
A cada momento, agradeça a Deus.
Passe esta mensagem a sete pessoas, exceto você e eu.
Você receberá algo que precisa amanhã.
(Apenas Faça)

In our quiet moments, love God.
In our painful moments, trust in God.
Every moment, give thanks to God.

Pass this message on to seven people, except you and I.
You will receive something special to you tomorrow.

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IE 7: PNG and CSS finally fixed

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It may be old news, having been released on Friday the 22nd, but it’s news to me and I’m really pleased. The new version of Internet Explorer, the much maligned Windows browser, will have proper CSS support (apparently) and will work with PNG images, making backgrounds and shadow affects usable.

The first couple of things they’ve done are:

  • Support the alpha channel in PNG images. We’ve actually had this on our radar for a long time, and have had it supported in the code for a while now. We have certainly heard the clear feedback from the web design community that per-pixel alpha is a really important feature.

  • Address CSS consistency problems. Our first and most important goal with our Cascading Style Sheet support is to remove the major inconsistencies so that web developers have a consistent set of functionality on which they can rely. For example, we have already checked in the fixes to the peekaboo and guillotine bugs documented at positioniseverything.net so use of floated elements become more consistent.

The IE Blog

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