20 Dec 2004

I'm cheating here by re-posting an e-mail I sent the other day... but hey, you don't expect me to come up with new content for this blog do you? :-) Here is a deliberately contrived example of why you might need to protect interfaces with inheritance...

Stéphane asks why any one would switch from Google given that it has become such a part of net culture. People will switch for a faster time-to-answer. Recently I needed to find the Microsoft Knowledge Base article that explained why you shouldn't run...

Thanks to all my readers, hope you have a happy and safe %HOLIDAY% . I'll be off-line for a few days, so no comments will get moderated until I return. What a way to end the year ! ;-)

The comments from my last post are still coming in thick and fast. Thanks to everyone who didn't just swear at me (and if I didn't approve your comment, it was because it had too much profanity in it). First things first: I was wrong about uninstalling...

[Fixed issues with images; sorry] [Removed the clear=all problem; thanks for pointing it out] [Added a follow-up post here ] Recently, a lot of volunteers donated money to the Firefox project to pay for a two-page advert in the New York Times . If only...