Spontaneous Monotony

If I’ve done my counting right then Scotland are (at least until France play their second game) top of their Euro qualifying group. Also top of their group are Germany, after beating San Marino 13 nil. It isn’t a record isn’t a German record but it is a European Championship qualifying record, as well as being a record defeat for San Marino (the previous record was 10 – 0 against Norway in 1992). I would say impressive but since the opposition have never won a competitive match (ever!), perhaps amusing is a better word. You know there’s something badly wrong when a 62nd minute substitute gets a hat-trick.

[EDIT] Also congrats to Northern Ireland for a brilliant win over Spain (the game was 2 – 1 to Spain when I first wrote this).[/EDIT]

Well, not quite, but Swift is a Windows browser which uses Apple’s WebKit rendering engine (ie the bit of Safari that actually does the pages – the same way Firefox uses Gecko).

There have been some problems with the installer – apparently you need the Visual C++ 2005 runtime libraries installed (and, unlike the more well-known .NET Framework, not everyone does), but I haven’t had any such problems. This of course might be because I have Visual C++ Express Edition installed, I’d advise downloading the libraries if you aren’t sure.

As for how good it is, I’m afraid I haven’t had the chance to make any further assessments than ‘this site looks fine in it’ and ‘the UI is utter crap’. The latter of which I can forgive seeing as this is a first release.

Since my hosting company recently doubled its bandwidth allocations, I’ve been able to change Wordpress from the default Kubrick theme to the slightly shinier K2 theme. I won’t, however, be enabling the AJAX features of the theme. Why?

1. The loading times for some of the scripts are goandmakeyourselfacupoftea-esque
2. Lots of people have Javascript disabled for security reasons. Though most of these (such as NoScript for Firefox) allow you to add sites to a whitelist, I don’t want people to have this hassle just to use the site
3. If I get Dugg, Slashdotted etc. and have to redirect traffic to Coral Cache, then none of the site (or at least, none of the pages which use AJAX) would work

Anyway, if you notice any screwiness then either leave a comment or email me (via my Wikipedia userpage).