Of course, back in the (pre-GPRS) day, that's basically how WAP phones worked. You were charged on a per-minute basis, as the phone was basically dialling in for Internet access. I can also remember hooking my phone up to my computer and using it as a modem. It was extremely slow (I think it synced at about 9.6Kbps), but it was functional. :)

So has anybody created a fork of Firefox yet that includes all the browser optimisations, faster JavaScript, etc, but doesn't bugger up the UI every month for no good reason (and ideally has a sane version numbering system)?

Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands should all be on GMT. Personally, I think that would make far more sense than Britain switching to CET. The Greenwich meridian is in the UK, for heaven's sake!

While I certainly applaud moves to reduce the roaming rip-off within the EU, the downside to this is that, in order to make up for their lost profits, the mobile companies significantly increase their charges if you leave the EU. Two years ago, I could make calls in the USA with my T-Mobile UK phone for a vaguely reasonable 55p/minute. Now, that price has skyrocketed to £1.20/minute. Other providers are even worse, with O2 charging nearly £1.40/minute for the same call. I hope we're not going to be significantly penalised again for non-EU roaming if these changes make it into law.

That's only because 98lite would replace explorer.exe with a version from Windows 95. 98lite could still remove various aspects of IE without replacing Explorer, of course, but the core rendering engine would still be installed. For all intents and purposes, explorer.exe and iexplore.exe in Windows 98 were basically both just a wrapper for the IE engine.

It's Alt-D, just like in a web browser. Which, considering the history of Windows Explorer, is not surprising!

UK tuition fees are low for Unless you're an overseas student, in which case it'll be anything between £10,000 and £26,000/year depending on what course you're taking.

So, most browsers support IDNs these days, but what about e-mail clients? In theory, it shouldn't be an issue for SMTP servers when translated into the ASCII form, but are there any e-mail clients that actually support IDNs? How about web-based e-mail services? I can foresee issues with people trying to e-mail these new domains.

I'm sorry, but what? While Apple (just like Microsoft) charges for major releases (e.g., 10.5 to 10.6), minor releases (e.g., 10.6.2 to 10.6.3) are free of charge, as are all the security updates between releases.

So how long before "3dporn.com" becomes a reality?