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1st of April 2004

I swear to god Mozilla is playing an April Fool's joke on me. My photo album displays all the photos in a directory in two cloumns of pictures with each picture center aligned in its column. Just now the top two pictures were correctly center aligned, but all the pictures below were left-aligned.

Odd.

Something similar to this happened yesterday and I eventually tracked it down to a missing </tr> tag. I've been trawling through my code for the last 10 minutes trying to find what could be missing, trawling through the HTML source the browser is seeing. All with no luck. Then, just on a whim I hit refresh - and all the pictures magically center-aligned.

It's almost as bad as the secretary here who keeps telling me my shoe laces are undone. To this I reply, without looking down or showing any visible signs of restraint "No. They're. Not." When one of my colleagues explained that he had spent the night watching football rather than attending the buffet, she remarked "Oh, have you heard that David Beckham is going to play for Wales?"

At the time I was immersed in my work, but even my subconcious picked up on this as blatant bollocks and managed to kick my conscious mind into waking up, turning my head around to face her and then utter the words "You're really trying, aren't you?"

I was tempted to make up some bollocks for an April Fools blog, but I decided against it in the end. The truth is far weirder than any fiction.

Blog #92, posted at 09:08 (GMT)