I tracked down the bug that was stopping Bluefunk downloading covers from Amazon. So downloading covers now seems to work like a charm. Nice!

It turned out to be a silly linking bug whereby the wrong code was getting linked into the Bluefunk executable. Some hardcore reading of auto-generated Muine makefile code managed to tease out the right way to link things in.

Another milestone towards 0.1 release.

Having found revision too stressful after a mere day working on it, I have decided to pause in order to give you a view of my New Years celebrations. As I am still a student, of course these did not involve sitting at home with a nice glass of vintage port (it is still on the side). In a nod to my hubris I did, however, have a (few) nice glass(es) of Beaujolais and Leffe.

Use Displaying an IE Information bar reminding your users that IE isn’t very useful.

That reminds me, I have to burn a Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org CD or two to take home for Christmas…

Autocompletion on Google. Pretty amazing stuff, I wonder when it will be turned on by default?

Gmail now does thumbnails of images that are attached to mails. It is all shaping up to be really nice, and I’m still using it for most of my email.

Finally, Phil Wilson has some cool information on how to make Firefox display text to the right of selected toolbar icons in Firefox. This is one thing that Epiphany has that I really like, so it’s good to have it in FF at last.

19 per cent said they have texted a partner to say “I love you” for the first time, but only one per cent have proposed via SMS.

Only one percent?! That implies that one in every hundred people would consider proposing, one of the most important personal questions you’ll ask in your life, via one of the most impersonal communications mediums. The mind boggles, it really does.

“dwn on 1 knee, drln. wll u marry me? (bk l8 2day, srry, ill gt milk)”