I was using this blog as an example of something the other day and noticed something was off in the sidebar when viewed in Internet Explorer. No surprise there, but when I dug a little deeper I discovered that it was only broken in IE7 – both IE6 and IE8 were okay (well, IE6 was a little off but nothing major).
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 8
The problem’s likely to have been there since last June which shows how little I use IE at home. Something to do with clearing floats or a calculating heights, but why is IE6 okay?
The interest I’m getting paid on my savings account (Yes I agree that I’m f**ing lucky to have some savings):
14 Oct 2008
£38.32
14 Nov 2008
£37.20
14 Dec 2008
£25.15
14 Jan 2009
£17.86
14 Feb 2009
£13.04
14 Mar 2009
£9.82
14 Apr 2009
£10.55
14 May 2009
£10.32
Not quite sure what happened in April. Did the Bank of England forget to cut the base rate or something?
The good news is that the government is getting £2 instead of £8 each month. Which means they have less money to give back to banks to pay me less interest. Hang on, surely this can’t be the way out of the crisis?
From tha questions in the old quiz I posted the other day, many are straightforward and a few are devious, I’m afraid that some are a little obscure or badly worded. But some I’m quite proud of, and these tend to have something in common.
Which 1985 film was directed by Steven Spielberg and featured Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey?
Easy for anyone with IMDB or Wikipedia access. But when I set this question it was aimed at undergraduates, most of whom would have been about ten when the film came out. It had been shown on telly (I remembering watching it) but all the same it wasn’t likely to spring to mind for most of the participants.
Who were the last nation to win football’s world cup in their own country?
Remember that this quiz is from 1997 so France were still a year away from winning. I’m sure lots of people would get this straight away as there’s a fair overlap between pub quizzers and football stat geeks. But for the rest of you, how many tournaments would you go back through before jumping to the ‘obvious’ wrong answer of England?
These questions are on topics – film, football – that people lots of people are interested in. They’re not even about obscure niches within those topics – Steve Spielberg and the World Cup can’t be called niche. But they are on the edge of, or just outside of, most people’s “comfort zone”. And that’s what I think makes a good pub quiz question.
Everything that mattered was right, and many of the things that didn’t matter as well (they even did the sideburns).
However, I have a problem with Scotty, it’s quite simply that Simon Pegg + scottish accent = Wee Hughie from The Boys and that brings to mind all sorts of very strange crossovers.
So I found this file, last modified 10 June 1997, on a set of back ups and it’s a pub quiz that I ran in Balliol bar. In fact considering the date I suspect that this is the night that pink_weasel first clapped eyes on me and thought “nice guy, shame about the jumper”.
I don’t normally do the celeb spotting thing, but I’ll just point out that today I passed Vic Reeves in Forbidden Planet. And it was only two or three years ago that I sat next to him in Yo! Sushi at Victoria.
Two people who live in London cross paths twice in busy public places. Shock.
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