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Yahoo mail beta doesn’t support IE 7

Overall I’m finding the beta 2 of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser to be quite good. There are one or two flaws though that I’ve noticed particularly in it’s handling of CSS.
However, the yahoo mail beta doesn’t support it. It provides a


Sorry, Yahoo! Mail Beta does not support your browser


but helpfully advises me to try Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher with a link that takes me to the IE download page. From a brief examination of requests IE7b2 is throwing at our webserver Looks like Yahoo failed to psychically read MS’s intentions and got the HTTP_USER_AGENT test wrong. Hope someone tells them!

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Springs eternal and infinite

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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OK, there’s a coffee drinking german in the 4th house who keeps fish as pets. Lucky the cats are in the first house, a safe distance away. The really funny thing about this particular puzzle is how similiar to sudoku it really is. For anyone living in siberia for the last few months Sudoku is really addictive. You start with small easy games and move on up to medium, hard & mind-numbing. Richard Rodgers had quite a few fascinating posts on solving it using a procedural approach. Generally, I prefer a declarative approach and prolog is definitely my language of choice. However, if anyone can come up with a tasty way to solve it using neural nets I’d love to see it.