I'm off to Vicky's parents later this afternoon for a few days, and then off to my parents with Vicky for a belated Christmas Day on the 27th. I'm sure my sister will have managed to get several rolls of film developed overnight from her trip to India, hopefully she won't make me too jealous... :)

Happy Hogswatch everyone, have a good time.

The pain started when I needed to be in Windows and thought I'd check how my web site looked in IE6. Bad, is the answer. Firstly, IE6 doesn't know what a "thin" border looks like and renders it several pixels thick. That isn't too bad, but then IE6 also decides to ignore the margin-right: statement and lets the content spread across the entire page, over the side bar. Finally I made the mistake of using a PNG with an alpha channel, which of course IE renders with solid 50% grey background. There is a work-around for this bug, but its incredibly ugly. Developing for Internet Explorer causes the red mist to appear...

Thomas Vander Stichele: web shopping in .es sounds painful. I was surprised by this as in .uk we have many online stores, and its pretty rare to find a site which does not work correctly. The normal problem is JavaScript assuming IE and some parts of the site not working correctly. Much of our Christmas shopping was done at Amazon.co.uk, which was delivered quickly as usual, even if in amazingly over-sized boxes (a trait Dabs appears to have pioneered with 2' × 1' × 0.5' boxes for a stick of SDRAM)