Blogging and all that Malarkey

I am so pleased today to announce that a new beta build of IE7 (I call it the MIX 06 release) will be available from MIX 06, March 20th to 22nd. The new browser will be handed out at MIX and will then hopefully be available from MSDN.

A busy few months of travel are ahead in Malarkey world. I’m very much looking forward to what’s coming up, to meeting old friends and making new ones.

With awareness of standards and accessibility being raised by groups such as WaSP, companies and organisations across many sectors have adopted standards. Sometimes their decision to do so might have been commercial, other times out of a need to comply.

In the news this week, three times winner of the Tour De France and occassional web designer Jeffrey Veen announced that MeasureMap has been acquired by Yahoo, AltaVista, Starbucks, Google.

In the news this week, three times winner of the Tour De France and occassional web designer Jeffrey Veen announced that MeasureMap has been aquired by Yahoo, AltaVista, Starbucks, Google.

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, a young man’s thoughts turn to love and as with any matter of the heart, there is often a dilemma involved. What should be my next purchase from Apple?

Explaining about the difference in northern British accents, a conversation metaphorically headed up the M6 motorway, through the inevitable roadworks to Manchester.

Back in October 2005, the Internet Explorer team urged developers to begin removing CSS hacks in favour of conditional comments.

So, according to those slipping the new IE7 Beta Preview out of it’s sleeve and slapping it down on the music-center, Internet Explorer 7 breaks my site. I can’t say that this was much of a surprise.

My good friend (and evil genius) Brothercake has today released an update to Invasion of the Body Switchers. Updating the classic ALA Style Switcher to accommodate multiple users and devices, including some that are not even traditional browsers, all from a…