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A few months back, I quietly added gravatar support to the site for commenters. I didn't mention it, as I (apparently incorrectly) assumed almost everyone had a gravatar.

The problem with throwing around phrases like epic fail for trivial things like incorrectly rating fruit, getting roman numerals wrong right on a watch, or

I’ve just finished reading about the death of Scott Norberg and, to be honest, I’m lost for words. I feel a strangely potent mix of numbness and outrage, but I have no way to express it.

Apple have included yet another item hidden with iTunes, it now installs MobileMe Control Panel whether you want it or not.

The general views on forums is that this is another intrusive and unwelcome feature.

I got my hands on Guitar Hero On tour. I'd heard bad thing but I was hoping the niggles would be work around able, well not without a lot of work.

I went to the London Literary Festival earlier in the year mainly to see dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, but there was another artist there that caught my eye. His name is Polar bear he a spoken word artist and is excellent.

A post about things I'm excited about at the moment. Includes jQuery, a fab javascript library for simplifying common techniques, dBug for visualising variables in PHP, an online HTML image map creator, a javascript timeline visualiser and someone's running Icar in play by post!

This made me chuckle.

I particularly liked the line

Critics have dismissed the gathering as a propaganda gimmick by the Saudis who, they say, are not best placed to host a meeting on religious tolerance.

Which might just be the understatement of the week.