February 1… Time to cut up my old credit card… Into about a million pieces. Anyone going through my garbage will have fun if they want the card since it is destroyed. Just checked my wallet (again). I did cut up the correct card 🙂 Cutting up the wrong card would be a bit of an OOps.

I have just installed the new beta version of Internet Explorer 7, and I am VERY impressed. The rendering of the text is SO much clearer. I am not sure what they did, but it improves things significantly. The text just looks so crisp. You can download the new verson here. If you already have a beta of IE7 you need to uninstall first. But that is simple, apart from having to press the ‘Show Updates’ button in Add/Remove Programs. It rebooted the computer after uninstalling, and again once it was installed. What I found strange when I uninstalled the beta was that it warned me that most of my programs would not run properly once I did it. Yeah, sure.

Once cute feature is that there is a pane showing thumbnails of all the IE windows open. Very nice. The only thing I have not found is a way to save the common tabs. I am sure that exists somewhere. It just takes some time to find it. Also I need to work out how to get the Google Toolbar onto its own line…

StarWars.COM has an article about the MythBusters who used to work for ILM who did the special effects for the movies. Great read.