SE51 > /dev/null > 2007 > December

Usually you should never mention “Internet Explorer” and “W3C compliant” in one sentence, I know. But don’t just stop reading yet. After an astonishing time of more than a decade and seven versions of Microsoft’s (probably not much longer) leading browser, it finally becomes more close to be compliant to the W3C standards with IE.next, otherwise known as Internet Explorer 8.

In the IE Blog of MSDN, they have announced that a test version of the browser’s next installment passes the ACID2 test. This test is designed to find flaws in a browser rendering engine, but at the same time is designed to see if the rendering engine is compliant with the web’s standards. Apparently IE8 passes the test in “Standards Mode”.

Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer division, has called this a milestone, and is describing the procedure, and what exactly the browser does, in this post on IEBlogs. On the bottom a so-called Check-In is listed, outlining the updated source code files in Internet Explorer which now avail of code to pass the ACID2 test.

It is quite interesting to hear these developments. However, no exact release date has been given, or if the browser is available for XP users, or other features. We can only be left puzzling with what they mean with “Standards Mode”. Maybe the browser will have two modes, such as “IE Mode”, and “Standards Mode”. The latter is probably not enabled by default, and it won’t be available for XP. A pity. Because a lot of people like XP more.

Whatever you may think of this headline, do not forget what UFO basically means: Unidentified Flying Object. It is the media which coined the term Ufo instead of UFO, automatically linking such devices to machines flown by an advanced alien race, which, if true, possesses a knowledge about time and space, superseding ours. However, so far, the search for hard evidence has regrettably come up with nothing concrete. So officially we do not know of other intelligent life than on Earth. However, having had a personal experience with one of these flying machines, I cannot deny the reports of many people around the world who have seen similar objects in the sky, or even first hand when they came up close.

Where as the USA denies any existence of these objects, Japan is more forthcoming and acknowledges their existence, although they also lack on the hard evidence.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Yes, UFOs do exist, Japan’s top government spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The comment by chief cabinet secretary Nobutaka Machimura drew laughter from reporters at his regular briefing on government policy.

Earlier the cabinet, responding to an opposition lawmaker’s question, issued a statement saying it could not confirm any cases of unidentified flying objects.

“This is an issue that the nation is interested in — it is a defence issue and a confirmation operation needs to take place,” Ryuji Yamane, a lawmaker from the main opposition Democratic Party who submitted the question to the cabinet, told Reuters.

The thing in bold is the key sentence here. This means they may be planning an military operation to get photos, and more information about these objects. I think this is a huge step forward in the right direction.

So personally, yes, after having seen one of those things relatively close, I also do believe they exist, and are not from this world. I cannot deny what I have seen.

Yahoo! News: Japan government spokesman says UFOs do exist

The truth is out there, trust me.

That would ultimately boost sales for the DS even more, as Mario Galaxy is already the highest rated games of all time. The below is either leaked footage, or a damn well done fake… I hope it’s the first one.

UPDATE: Regrettably, the video is indeed fake. The comments at another video over at YouTube state this:

It’s fake this video is created by psyco3ler, not Nintendo

Damn it.

…but the gate was still boarding this morning when I barely made it to the plane. But when I got there, I was able to make this shot before I flew to Germany. =)

Every year, I create a sampler for myself, in form of a double CD, which contains the songs that meant something to me. Every year around December, I complete the Cover Art and the back, which I then print and put it into a CD label, then I also burn the CDs as Audio CDs.

This year’s cover concentrates on OS X Mercury, as it was on the center stage this year for me, combined with a Leopard box like look, and the back obviously is from Time Machine. The older iTunes windows reflect the backside art from the two years before.

Time Machine through the year.

Silently, Google has launched a new interface for the iPhone and iPod touch. It now sports access to its major services along a row on the top of the screen, such as Mail and its Reader service, as well as the Calendar. Everything works as expected, but with a cooler look.

If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, open Safari and navigate to google.com/m.

If you made it right, you should get a screen like this: