Will google+ survive?

I thought google+ would be a better alternative to facebook with its cool circles feature. But apparently very few of my friends actually use it.

And today I got a notification email from google that a friend had added me to his circles. But from that e-mail, I clicked and got his google+ profile, and to mine, and tried to find a way to send him a private welcome message, but failed!  This is just one example, but it gives me the feeling that google+ still needs a lot of work to be truly usable.

IE buttons become extra wide

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I was surprised to find that IE draws buttons with extra extra extra padding making them too wide.
I use css to shape my buttons, and I had to add the following line to the button's css to prevent it from becoming extra wide:

  overflow: visible;

For more on this issue, check out: An Even Better IE Button Width Fix

Although that blog says the fix does not work inside table cells, it worked for me. Maybe because my button is encapsulated in a <span>.

Microsoft Internet Explorer cannot open Windows Live email

Talk about inconsistencies in Microsoft products! My Windows Live Messenger shows I have email. I click on the email link, and it is supposed to open internet explorer and automatically log me in and take me to my windows live emails page. It used to work off and on, but since yesterday it always fails to open the page (Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage).

More interesting is the fact that if I then copy the URL from the IE address bar and paste it into google chrome, the windows live email page open instantly!

Go figure.

A star is torn apart

Astronomers catch view of a star torn apart by a balck hole in a glaaxy far far away: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/04/07/followup-on-the-star-torn-apart-by-a-black-hole-hubble-picture/

JQuery form field validation

I was about to embark on JQuery solution for form field validation whenI came across this:
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/validation

It is alongthe same lines that I was going to work on. I am glad it is already done!