Firefox Secrets

Did you know that the BBC has 43 different translations of its website? I was interested to see what it was like ploughing through the different versions in languages like Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. One of the greatest variations to the visual layout is the Arabic version, which is positioned from right to left….

Today is my very good friend Vanessa Heng’s birthday. She’s flown off to Italy today with her parents, the lucky girl. Since she speaks Italian and studied in Florence for half a year, she should have no problem showing them around. In the meantime, I’ll just hang on to what’s left of my leave.

Just saw some unusual photos – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates having a conversation in public. Aww. Possible captions Bill: Hey Steve… er, about that iPhone …

Zeldman and Stopdesign to revamp Apple.com. Can it get any better than this? CSS guru Eric Meyer launches his new consultancy website. One for the ladies: Eating dark chocolate is good for you, according to this Reuters Health report. It contains antioxidants.

I was looking for a new mobile phone and realised that 02’s my-xda.com website refused to let me in, even though I was using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, and not Internet Explorer or Netscape. It also refused to let me in using Safari. Fortunately, it did run on IE for Mac. I had…

I abandoned Friendster after a while, when it got slower and I lost interest in the whole social networking fad. But now that it’s improved, I’ve logged back in and discovered: Horrors – old incriminating photographs of me and my past lives! Many friends have updated their profiles and photographs and it’s fun going through…