’Ello, ’ello, ’ello

’Ello, ’ello, ’ello posted 19th July 2002

Here in the UK, Home Secretary Blunkett is pushing through proposals (“opening up a discussion”) for national identity (“social security entitlement”) cards. Let’s just state here and now that this is flawed thinking and just plain wrong. George Kerevan in the Scotsman gives a few reasons why ID cards are a bad thing.

The new version of multimap.com is having a few problaymos with Mozilla 1.0 and its various Gecko friends. When you click through from the home page a huge swathe of white space appears between the left hand column and the rest of the page. But not on our test servers. And the problem disappears when you refresh. Very annoying and very hard to test solutions, but I’m working on it (read: pulling my hair out).

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