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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!

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

Thought this was an excellent article on the seemingly endless saga surrounding Nigerian footballer John Obi Mikel. It’s well structured and clearly thought out. Read it here
The actions of the players’ agents (if indeed they are that) certainly appear to be highly cynical. In particular, the attempted circumvention of binding arbitration from FIFA in favour of a Norwegian court ruling wasn’t helpful. It’s difficult to argue with the contention that the player himself could have sorted out this mess if he’d adopted a more direct approach with both clubs. Still, given the intrigue of death-threats, kidnappings etc., it’s easy to argue there were mitigating circumstances.