Many Online casinos tend to be orientated at English language gamers, which can leave those without the requisite skills out in the cold; wanting to play, but not necessarily able to understand the rules reliably. Luckily, some of the Casinos and their compendium sites out there (such as FreeCasinos) have seen the niche in the market, and now set up pages so that the vast majority can still access the games they like.
The site’s main page summarizes the important details for each casino, from the sign up bonus, to the currencies currently accepted. (This way you won’t lose out on exchange rates etc.). Should you already have experience of Online casinos, and know which back room software system you prefer to see running a site, that info is also handily offered.
The graphic design on the front page looks as though the images need a little re-jigging, as in both FireFox and Internet Explorer 7, I see the header image as out of alignment, but other than that, all looks well with the site.

FreeCasinos want people to know about their site so much, that they reward some bloggers who write about them.

If you were sincerely upset by the misleading title of the Oz Equals Land Of Toxic Emissions? post, go and check out this site on burps and farts.
OK, so it is not the most mature of content for web sites to focus on, for sure, but if someone, somewhere wants to find information on something, you can almost guarantee a webmaster has already compiled just such a site, LMAO.
Sadly, I could not get the videos (such as Britney Spears belching) to work at all in either Internet Explorer of Firefox, but the audio files make up for that. If you find this all immature and not to your taste, just skip on to the next post.

If you have children, or a younger brother or sister, and have not yet thought what to get them for Christmas, there is a British web site that specialises in producing Bedroom Door Signs with a twist - they are basically novelty number plates. Of course, you do not have to use them as a sign for a door, they can be placed anywhere signs are normally affixed. (Please note that the majority of them would NOT be suitable for use on a car that is being driven on a public highway, though for car shows etc., they would add a special look to your motor.)
The procedure for creating your own sign is quite simple, you choose the background you want, the main text (with the normal attributes you want (font,size, colour etc.), and any smaller text as well. One step that could do with some improvement is the choosing of the background image - right now they are listed with their original filename, rather than a description. The navigation menu at the top is also obscured by the plate customization process (tested in both Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox 2.0.0.8). Apart from that, the process was quite intuitive.
So, for something a little different this Christmas, check the link out, and see which images would most suit your family or friend…

The previous post took around 30 minutes to write, mainly because I was also doing a few other things at the same time. Having written the post, I hit the Publish button, and moved onto to clear down the work required on a few dozen other FireFox tabs, intending to return to the WordPress tab a little later.
For some reason I checked back on it before that. Lucky really - the post was lost, with a 406 error, I believe. Some issue with a suitable request not being issued or found… Anyway, simply returning back to the previous page just presented me with an EMPTY post page, with all my work missing. OK, so I’ve had similar problems before, clicked forward, and then F5ed, and the data has been re-posted correctly. So I tried this approach, unfortunately the same error returned. Before looking into this much further, I opened up Internet Explorer, and checked I could publish a test post there. (Didn’t want to do this within FireFox in case I cleared some sort of internal cache, and therefore lose all hope of recovering the work.) This new test post appeared fine.
I now had a choice, spend perhaps 10 minutes re-writing a post, as I still had the basic outline in my head, or… decide the PC was trying to annoy me on purpose, and rise to the challenge & beat the issue into submission.
Friends will not be greatly surprised to hear that I took the second route - and some twenty minutes later, recovered a version of the text, by sniffing the outgoing packets that were sent whenever I hit F5. Unfortunately the software I had installed to do this was rather rudimentary, with no filtering options, and as I had a lot of other pages loading and data being sent, it took a while to track down the right packets to analyse. Once I had searched for, and replaced, the silly codes (ASCII escape codes??), I had the post back again. OK, so it would have been simpler to just retype the thing, rather than start sniffing network packets, but it had been a while, and you can never tell when it might be useful
Then before this post was finished, we had a power cut. Luckily we have already replaced the last UPS we had, so I had enough time to hibernate the PC. The power came back 5 minutes later, the PC booted up, then decided it wanted to hibernate before it had finished booting. It hung for 5 minutes, before I hit restart. T.F. for FireFox’s ability to restore sessions when it senses your PC has become fubarred Even our washing machine didn’t lose its programming, which was lucky, as I am doing some last minute washing, drying and ironing to get ready for Amsterdam and Britain. I’d already been delayed on that front by a few hours when our hot water went all orange again! Then Kara decided it was time to rid the shirt I am wearing of those evil adornments - buttons.

However, none of the above is going to bug me, I’m on my way to get severely relaxed, meet friends and family after a break of some 9 months, so I shall take it all in without getting too stressed. Oh, and Steve, a good friend from my Uni days back at Bournemouth has just got in contact through Facebook, my beautiful wife has just kissed me before going to bed, and I may even be in bed myself before dawns breaks, so the world could be in such a worse state for me right now

I watched an interesting short news item on the problems facing the area in Kazakhstan that was used by the USSR to test nuclear weapons. I was actually quite surprised at the tone used by people in the area, as I would have thought that they would feel more cautious talking to a foreign reporter about things like this. Anyway, catch it over at Yahoo News.
I just rechecked the video, and for some reason it is now playing at 50% of the intended height. This was in FireFox, I checked the same link in Internet Explorer 7, and didn’t have the same problem… If you have issues with the video, try switching browsers.

Although big name brands, such as Timex, Seiko and Gucci attract a lot of attention in the Fashion magazines, the normal high street prices can often be prohibitive, and so ‘ordinary’ people can find it difficult to obtain top notch sunglasses and watches.
Luckily, even Prada Sunglasses are now available at a huge discount, often up to 70% off the Manufacturer’s Recommended Price (MRP)! Unlike many e-bay sellers, all items come with RedBird’s own 3 month warranty; if you come across an auction item claiming the manufacturer’s warranty applies, this is apparently not true - you need to be an authorized seller, so it is good to know RedBird have enough faith in their products to put their own personal warranty on the watches and sunglasses.
Although the bottom of the site appears a little too closely spaced in FireFox, if you visit the link in Internet Explorer 6 or 7, all appears as intended.

If you have any interest in the history of the internet, or more specifically the World Wide Web (unless you remember the days of bulletin boards and Compuserve, the two terms are probably synonymous), then an article I recently found may well be of interest to you. It details the battles fought over the need for standards in the days of early web sites and browsers. Check the Business Week link for the full run down, however it basically explains how Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape browser were very incompatible at the beginning, which lead to the ridiculous situation of web sites having to be designed, hosted, and of course paid for, in duplicate. Although the comments indicate that some in this field believe Zeldman (the subject of the article) receives too much glory, the story behind the creation of standards is of interest. To me at least, hopefully others won’t fall asleep after the 1st page ;-P

When I first started this blog (see yesterday’s ‘Happy Birthday’ post), I knew a little HTML, Pascal, Visual Basic from my Uni days, the basics of C++, and of course BASIC (from my spectrum days, and a little QBasic programming, from my DOS, pre-Windows 3.0 days.).
Since then, I could not honestly say I have learnt PHP and CSS scripting, however, I now know enough to hack about other peoples work, with a reasonably large amount of confidence that I will eventually get what I require out of the script I am bodging. A good example of this is Alex’s Blog - Dryad Musings. We got the theme modified to the stage it looked good enough in FireFox, but Internet Explorer still displays a few quirks.

Anyway /dream.in.code (apart from having a mildly confusing name - I would personally interpret that name to equate to END dreaming in code, but that could just be my lack of knowledge…), has a great deal of information on many languages, so whether you fancy lending a hand to newbies to your area of knowledge, or you have some questions to ask experts in a field you are still picking up, do make sure you check out the forums, before you start making random Google searches in your quest for assistance.

Given an opportunity, I would like to get a handle on Ruby - it certainly never harms any to have good solid foundation of knowledge across related topics of information. Anyway, check out what is on offer, feel free to leave a comment, or perhaps more suitable in this post at least, leave your query on the forums directly.

Alex has now setup her blog at her new domain - www.DryadMusings.com. When you get a moment, check it out, and if you happen to know anything about CSS, you could even leave her a message about sorting her Internet Explorer rendering issues.
You can find her post on the Birthday Celebrations in Astana , if you would like to find out a little bit more about what has been and will be happening to celebrate Astana’s 10 years as the capital of Kazakhstan and also the President’s birthday