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Excellent article from John Dvorak clearly stating why Microsoft blundered when they suddenly went into the browser business.
Afraid I have uninstalled my IE7 as it caused Firefox to seize up and anyway it didnt seem to offer any advantages over Firefox.
Downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7beta this morning all 12MB of it plus all its ‘updates’, after all it was released yesterday.
I thought I would see what extensions were available:-
Wow just look at the size of those downloads! and they expect me to pay for them too!
Interestingly the default search engine is Google:
I also can’t see a way of displaying a directory in the links bar. Also the links bar seemed to not be there after install. You have to fiddle like in the old IE to get it to appear as a complete bar.
So far I can’t see any reason to change from Firefox
NHS Blog Doctor writes that British GPs win Eurolottery: “A full time partner in my practice currently earns about £140,000 year net of expenses. Over the last two years, we have had a pay rise of between twenty and twenty-five percent”
and of cause, he states,you can increase your pay by these lovely ruses too by using “Trainee GPs are better than free labour; GP trainers actually get PAID to have them” or “get a full time salaried GP for £70,000 a year. That is half the income of the GP principal” or even better get a nurse to do the work “You can afford six practice nurses for each GP” and of cause you need someone for the “administrative job of organising and presenting data” to maximise your wealth.
No wonder Ellee’s xGP partners are making her stick to the retirement age in their partnership agreement, when they stand to gain so much with these sorts of ‘pay’ rises and ruses courtesy of nulabour.
Took myself off for my first lesson in Real Tennis today under the guidance of Kees Ludekens the senior coach at Cambridge University Real Tennis Club, yep a bit of a mouthful and rather offputting as you don’t have to belong to the university at all to join.
Really enjoyable especially under Kees eagle eye, spotting all my mistakes (Using the racquet like in badminton – just doesn’t work!). Things I have to remember is to imagine a camera in the racquets handle looking at the oncoming ball, serving slower and serving sideways on – plus all the names of the parts of the court!
I notice in the Wikipedia article that there is a court in Australia at Ballarat where my friend, from infant school, Stan Jeffery lives. Will have to convince him to take it up.
My next session is Wednesday 26th April at 12.30 if anyone fancies joining me for group instruction under Kees.
