Archives for: June 2006, 30

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 release

Microsoft have recently released the new beta version of Internet Explorer 7 which can be downloaded here.

Couple of new things I've noticed include a new add to favourites button, even the new Windows Vista build doesn't have this icon yet.

FTP sites that require authentication also now functions properly, in the beta 2 build this was broken.

One of the key new features however is being able to re-arrange the tab order which can be very useful sometimes.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 tab reordering

My favourite feature is probably the new way to handle large images, users used to IE6 will remember the little box that would hover in the bottom-right corner of images which would toggle the image from the original size to a size that will fit within the window. Now you don't need to wait for the little box to pop up you just need to click anywhere on the image and it will instantly toggle to resize the image or not.

Overall it's a good release that's available for Windows XP SP2, x64, and Windows Server 2003.

Admiral Noah's fleet

Admiral Noah

Christians are claiming to of discovered Noah's Ark (again). This time it's in Iran. Just how many ships did Noah command? I can find at least four ships.

I believe we also have evidence for a 5th ship in Great Britain too. Well we don't have the actual boat, or any evidence of a ship but we've got evidence of the feast that followed! Here we go from a recent BBC News article:

Bones and tusks dating back 400,000 years are the earliest signs in Britain of ancient humans butchering elephants for meat, say archaeologists.
Remains of a single adult elephant surrounded by stone tools were found in northwest Kent during work on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.

Scientists believe hunters used the tools to cut off the meat, after killing the animal with wooden spears.

Clearly they're mistaken, obviously it couldn't of been 400 000 years ago, so they must mean 4000 years. Elephants don't live in Britain it must of come from the Ark! This must of been the big feast they had when they left one of the arks, can't be anything else!

Anyway back to reality, that makes Noah's fleet at least 5 ships strong.

And to have them all beach at the top of mountains, what kind of admiral was he? A bad one at best. I've never heard of admirals ever losing their ships at the top of mountains, yeah sure this was before GPS but come on.