In addition to causing me problems buying underwear and wine, my browser is stopping me from wasting my money on the stupid tax. A reader of my blog pointed out that the web site for The National Lottery does not take kindly to people visiting their site using Mozilla Firefox, and while I can visit … Barred from the lottery
The counties that I have visited, shown in yellow on a map. Via John Davies, who is doing far better than I at touring the UK! Made by marnanel Map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.
I wanted to buy wine, I have bought wine before from Virgin Wines and so went to their site and tried to log in, and failed to log in, so I assumed I had forgotten my password and requested that it was emailed to me. This action resulted in them deleting my card details from … Wine merchants
… or can other Firebird/Mozilla users access the Marks & Spencers site without getting the disallowed message today?
So, this morning I wanted to check whether a certain item was available from Marks & Spencer, so I visited their web site. I’m watching the page load when Bam! I’m redirected to the following friendly message. “To protect you from certain usability and/or security issues we currently do not support Opera, Mozilla, earlier versions … You are not allowed into our site because we don’t like your browser
Craig Saila interviews Dave Shea (of CSS Zen Garden fame) in the latest issue of Digital Web Magazine. It’s a good read, Dave does fantastic work in pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with CSS, and I really liked his comments when asked what his advice would be to those launching public sites, … Interview with Dave Shea
I’ve gone and got another cold, this is no doubt some kind of divine retribution for always being smug about hardly getting any colds, as this year it seems like someone has just needed to sneeze within a 100 yards of my vicinity and I’ve caught their cold. Because having a blocked nose makes me … Snuffle
Today I watched the Heathrow departures board, from the comfort of my desk, until I saw that the plane my parents were on had started to taxi down the runway. The Small Person and I then watched at the window to see the plane fly overhead – we are directly on the flight path from … I love the web
People vs. Peer “Ms. Ordinary” attempts to break the world record for charity fundraising (and to steal the glory from disgraced Peer Jeffrey Archer who is attempting to do the same)
Some comments made on Drew’s blog interest me. Doing a search on Google, the term ‘whitelist’ seems to be used almost always in terms of products that do some kind of filtering – such as that for spam. The words ‘white’ and ‘black’ don’t immediately make me think of race, they make me think of … whitelist/blacklist