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“As for hold­ing one bad grade — or even entire bad sub­ject areas — against some­one, I’m more sus­pi­cious of peo­ple who did get good grades in every sub­ject. In my expe­ri­ence they tend to be rule-crazy con­formists, obsessed with their grades rather than with par­tic­u­lar sub­jects.” John Gru­ber, thanks for say­ing this.

What do you think of Chrom v Firefox?

“Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re test­ing 41 shades between each blue to see which one per­forms bet­ter. I had a recent debate over whether a bor­der should be 3, 4 or 5 pix­els wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t oper­ate in an envi­ron­ment like that. I’ve grown tired of debat­ing such minis­cule design deci­sions. There are more excit­ing design prob­lems in this world to tackle.” What do you do as a designer in an engi­neer­ing firm.

“Farm­ers in Argentina are launch­ing a seven-day strike to protest against the government’s agri­cul­tural poli­cies.” After export taxes went up on soya beans.

“The net­works pow­er­ing indus­trial con­trol sys­tems have been breached more than 125 times in the past decade, with one result­ing in U.S. deaths, a con­trol sys­tems expert said Thurs­day.” Wow, that’s a prob­lem people.

How well does IE8 com­pare to Safari 4 and FF3 and FF3.1 Beta.

“Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had stu­dents set­tle their dif­fer­ences by fight­ing inside a steel cage, a local news­pa­per has reported.” WTF?

“Pres­i­dent Obama’s bud­get pro­pos­als, if car­ried out, would pro­duce a stag­ger­ing $9.3 tril­lion in total deficits over the next decade, much more than the White House has pre­dicted, the Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office said on Fri­day. As for the dif­fer­ences among var­i­ous bud­get pro­jec­tions, Mr. Orszag attrib­uted them in part to small per­cent­ages — such as diver­gent assump­tions about the rate of eco­nomic growth — that, when applied to huge num­bers, can pro­duce eye-popping con­trasts.” Still no real clear idea why the num­bers are different.

“Sum­mary: Dis­cussing the House vote to levy a 90-percent tax on exec­u­tive bonuses, NBC, ABC, and Fox News all advanced the false Repub­li­can alle­ga­tion that by pass­ing the recov­ery bill, Democ­rats cre­ated the right for AIG to pay bonuses. In fact, the bill did not cre­ate the right for AIG — or any com­pany — to pay bonuses; rather, it restricted the abil­ity of com­pa­nies receiv­ing TARP money to award bonuses in the future.” Ahh I love the smell of faulty report­ing in the morning.

Auto­mat­i­cally deploy GoogleCheck­out to osCommerce.

“The Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion has been brought to full power just over 10 years after assem­bly began.” Very cool.