This has got to be possibly the funniest crash bug for IE. Basically, by having an input element (used in forms) with no body tag, IE dies on its arse.

I voted for the first time yesterday. It wasn’t a very overwhelming experience. Nobody that I really wanted to vote for.

What’s the point in a democracy that does such a poor job of representing the people? As far as I can tell, no party fully represents a single person (other than the party themselves). The normal voters have to pick the closest fit; Everyone compromises and hopes for the best.

Of course, the best never comes. The various political parties don’t put their real agendas on the table. No sir, can’t have the people getting what they wanted.

Excuse the cynicism of this post, it just seems that our countries are far from what they could be.

Catch Me If You Can isn’t a bad film. It’s not a very good film either. Although there are some amusing moments throughout the film (Leonardo DiCaprio pretending to be James Bond, for one), the plot jumps around too much for it all too work. It seems like cleverly scripted set-pieces, held together with some under-done characterisation and weak plot devices.

From the outset, we’re never allowed to connect to Frank (the protagonist of the film): his genius and daring, although apparent from the outcomes that we’re allowed to see, are never truly portrayed. He goes from small-time cheque fraud, to having stolen several million dollars in the space of a few scenes, with no intervening growth really shown. We only really see his early failures, and his great escape scene later on. That’s it.

His pursuit is entertaining in places, but largely empty. Nothing really convincing. It’s about as half-hearted as this review.

I’ve not really posted much in the last day or two, and won’t for another day or two. This week is class test week: a whole lot of testing and not a whole lot of time for studying.

Other than working hard, I’ve started to prepare the next major overhaul of Finetto, the CMS I’ve been developing (and that runs this site). There’s a lot of stuff going in that I’ve wanted to do for ages (Comments, an event-based model for dealing with changes etc) and some new ideas (those can remain private until they’re implemented).

I’m surprised at the amount of redundancy I’m going to be able to remove: there’s lots of similar code in there just waiting to be made more generic, lots of tweaking waiting to be done.

Anyway, there will be a return to normal service on Thursday, if all goes well.

I’ve been messing around with RSS 2.0 feeds a bit lately. I thought it was about time I added one myself. So, I had a look at the feed Sam Ruby has and took what I needed.

Then I got to thinking: we have an XHTML body for content in the feed, so why not use it as we would in any other web page? After a little messing around, I added some CSS rules and now have a feed that’s smarter (looking) than your average feed.

I give you my RSS 2.0 feed.