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H₂SO₄

A monumental achievement in web browser technology: Opera Software has now publicly released a development build that finally passes the Acid test!

No, not this Acid test.

Not this one either.

This one!

Posted: 2012-02-28 17:19:10 UTC by Xiven | Cross-references (0) | Comments (0)

Pingback back

On a whim, decided to fix the pingback implementation on this weblog (made it use PHP's XML-RPC module instead of 3rd-party classes). Incidentally, the source code of this website makes me want to cry. Who wrote this junk?…

Posted: 2012-01-08 14:28:33 UTC by Xiven | Cross-references (0) | Comments (0)

Wire-free

Wow, free (working) wi-fi on the Oxford - Heathrow bus. Amazing.

Posted: 2011-12-27 15:46:56 UTC by Xiven | Cross-references (0) | Comments (1)

Medical stuff

To continue on from my previous entry, apparently I have been suffering from the effects of Infectious mononucleosis (aka. "glandular fever", "mono" or "kissing disease"). In addition I also managed to pick up a case of Pneumonitis.

All-in-all, a whole lot of not so fun stuff, but I'm out of hospital now and recovering at home.

Posted: 2011-07-03 09:26:00 UTC by Xiven | Cross-references (0) | Comments (0)

Status updates

There are various things I want to post to this blog, but I haven't got around to it lately. This update is definitely worth posting now though.

I'm currently in hospital undergoing various tests for a mystery fever that I've been afflicted with for the past few days. The doctors suspect some kind of infection, but they haven't yet been able to find the source or what is actually causing the fever. I'm reasonably stable now though, so hopefully this will blow over soon.

I'll try to post updates when I know something more, but I'm only able to post this by making use of Kam's smartphone tethered to my laptop to provide an Internet connection. There is some touchscreen Internet thing in my room, but it runs IE6 and doesn't like HTTP auth. Crashes a lot too, fun times.

Posted: 2011-06-25 17:39:12 UTC by Xiven | Cross-references (1) | Comments (0)