I am tired of reading news everyday along the lines of - x number of chickens were culled at y to prevent (fear of) spread of bird flu. These chicken are being mercilessly killed, mostly by wringing their neck or worse. Why not call it what it is? At the least the millions of chicken being "culled" deserve their killing to be acknowledged.

In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML recommendations. In the other mode the layout engine tries to mimic old browsers. In Mozilla these modes are known as “the Standards mode” and “the Quirks mode” respectively.

I changed my motherboard recently to Asrock. Soon after my Windows 2000 installation started crashing (read: Blue screen of death). Even Safe mode with Networking failed to boot.

Javascript doesn't natively support trim on strings. It is however very easy to implement with regular expressions.

Google appeared with a new look today for Indians (google.co.in). It sports a three column look with flexible center content column. It appears to be a limited trial, displaying only in certain regions. It still uses html table for layout. It appears Google has decided not to join the CSS bandwagon or, as I repeatedly stress, have realized the limitations of CSS based page layout.