Just two of them are:

• the interoperability and the issues that exist when rendering the same page in different browsers. OK, Microosft has never admitted to have broken the web, but we all seem to have expirienced some issues in that area. Even after not breaking it – they fixed it
• when a page in a post/get event is prepared and the network is lost, the IE will adapt the submit-button becomes a save button, so the work done is not lost;
• I’ll post more when it becomes available here…

The developer beta can be found on www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8 as soon as this keynote will be over.

That’s why I do hope that the both will keep on extending the support on OpenID, without trying to claim, own or manage it.

(via Bert Heymans, and Carsten Pötter)

We blijken slechts een van de achterliggende klassementen te leiden: het televisiebezit. Een mens vroeg zich af waarom we FC De Kampioenen bleven heruitzenden, maar nu we weten dat 99,8% van de huishoudens een TV hebben, begrijp ik dat er misschien nog 1 belg is die een aflevering heeft gemist…

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Microsoft heeft inderdaad doorheen de laatste weken verdere steun gevonden voor haar voorstel om haar open document formaat te standardiseren. Echter, onvoldoende om de standaard ook te laten goedkeuren door de internationale gemeenschap.De mededeling dat nu het pad geeffend is om op termijn toch naar een positieve stemming (en dus standardisering) over te gaan, blijkt ook wat te optimistisch. Microsoft, en met haar vele anderen in de technologie-wereld, hadden gehoopt om met Open XML een tweede open standaard te kunnen hebben, naast het ODF, dat voornamelijk door de open source wereld wordt gevolgd. Pittig detail, dit ODF heeft haar ISO standardisering al even op zak.

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Murphy’s law of bad weather

In the night before we had scheduled to depart from New York, a severe thunderstorm woke us up in the early morning. We didn’t payed attention to it any more, till our driver picked us up at the hotel to head to JFK. Even if we had like three and a half hour before the plane would leave, he started to give us excuses while it could be that he would not make it to the airport in time. To give his words a little more prove, he turned on the radio, were we heard indeed that New York’s traffic was not just jammed but that the city was (as the New York Times said it) “brought to its knees“. The driver managed to get us out of the city in under 45 minutes, and by using small roads in Queens where I never was before, we made it to the airport in less than one and a half hour. Most people we met at the airport had travelled over two hours and a half from Manhattan to JFK.

Mispacking luggage

(Koen’s misreading)

So, after we landed (later than expected) in Brussels, I rearranged my schedule to accommodate as much meetings as possible, without jeopardising the chances of (re-)packing luggage to get ready for Madeira. So when it all (hmm … read on) was packed, I looked at those tickets. 20 kilo seemed to be the luggage limit… Great, but that was a little (!) over the weight of my case at that time. So a repackaging effort started, while I left a lot of the more heavy stuff aside, to add it later. This heavy stuff, including my books, is still at home. I’ll have to take a few days off when I get back, so I can read all those books I hoped to get trough here…

The stories at Zaventem airport will be subject of the blog tomorrow or so. Stay tuned for another new low in services-industry performance!

But, right now we are enjoying a stay at this great island in the middle of the ocean. I’ll post pictures on the website and I’ll blog some more stories in the next days. In the meanwhile, we’ll be swimming in the ocean, picking up golf again after months of inactivity, and enjoying the mild climate here: all what’s needed to recuperate from the 36 stressfull hours of travel

So I went to the first subway station I could think about, the one next to Battery PLace. I had understood that Line 1 would bring me back, but I had no other information. So I asked two gentlemen, who appeared to be runners as well, in the subway. One of them turned out to be heading in the same direction as myself. So we started a longer than expected journey, visiting metro stations where we could not enter, as we had no card, metro station that were closed and finally a subway station tht had a train to bring us back and a ticket veding machine… (after 100 attempts to slide my card in the right pace, it finally accepted my 2 dollar…

So our journey gave us a little time to talk about running, about travelling and, about blogging. Where we would have exchanged e-mail-addresses a year or so ago, we now exchanged blog-urls

So now, while blogging my sucess in reaching the finish today, I typed in the URL and found the blog of a loving father that is running in an effort to raise funds for research on autism.As some of you know, my brother Johan had a specific form of autism as well. So, dear readers of my blog, if you feel this to be a right cause, support Rafael in its effort to raise 50 000 dollar this year. Read the blog and/or go immediately to the fund raising page

Success with the rest of your 10half marathons this year, Rafael!

Koen

Update: Continued here