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From time to time we modify the Google logo to celebrate different holidays celebrated by our users around the world.

Today our logo commemorates the birthday of Gaston Julia, a French mathematician who was instrumental in the study of fractal geometry. This type of mathematics inspired the fractal images depicted in the logo.For more information on fractals, please visit:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=…(snipped)
For more images of fractals, please visit:

http://www.google.com/images?q=julia+fractals.

In your spare time, please have a look at http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html for an archive of our more popular logo variations.

Regards,
The Google Team

The mysterious fractal alien’s have unfortunatly been ruled out from taking over Google, as is the FFC (you know if you know what I’m on about – Jam, Bowski) it’s infact quite dull, and not really worthy of a logo changing. Get over to Mo’ Treats and have a look in the forum and the question of the day post for today (Tues 3rd Feb).

Have fractal hungry aliens taken over Google? A suggestion pondered to me my a mate who asked “why does the google logo has fractals on it today?”. A very good question, the logo is on show here with some text. A possible explanation is that it relates to when fractals were first discovered, either that or a google admin has a strange fractal fetish.I know I know, what’s a fractal I hear you cry, or not, anyway, if you’re still curious here’s a couple of pages that tell you more:

• http://www.theory.org/software/qfe/
• http://students.bath.ac.uk/ma0lap/discovered2.HTML

Well, what can be said to this. If they will name their chip after “two jags” himself. Surprised it didn’t explode and hit someone.For those amungst you who don’t know, John Prescott is the Deptury Prime Minister.

Some good stuff here but in particular some good information and links on MovableType stuff.

Everyone should use Firebird. It’s so much better than IE, well, a wet fish is better than IE, and is quick, customisable, it’s great! Still not a final version yet, it’s a concept but it works well as does Thunderbird which is the mail client from Mozilla.The point of this though is about Firebird extensions, they’re cool, no doubt, but at the moment hard to uninstall. They’re need to replace functionality that’s not yet included into the final build though 0.8 is being released on Feb. 9th which should be good.This workaournd was taken from the mozillaZine forums but is included here for conveniance.Uninstalling Extensions
Until the uninstall feature for extensions is implemented (bug 170006), use this procedure as a workaround:(Extension installed in the program folder)
1. Exit Mozilla Firebird
2. Change to the chrome dir of your Mozilla Firebird application dir
3. Delete chrome.rdf and the overlayinfo dir (they are regenerated on next start)
4. Delete [extension].jar (or the [extension] dir, if it’s used unpacked)
5. Remove every line with a reference to [extension] from installed-chrome.txt (usually there are two: one to the content and one to the locale)
6. A few extensions might use additional files; TBE for example has a tabextensions.js in [Phoenix dir]/defaults/pref to store its defaults in. Search through your app dir for such files and delete them.
7. Restart Mozilla Firebird(Extension installed in the profile folder)
1. Exit Mozilla Firebird
2. Change to the chrome dir of your Mozilla Firebird profile dir
3. Delete [extension].jar (or the [extension] dir, if it’s used unpacked)
4. Remove every line with a reference to [extension] from chrome.rdf and the overlayinfo dir. (usually there are two: one to the content and one to the locale)
5. A few extensions might use additional files; Search through your profile dir for such files and delete them.
6. Restart Mozilla FirebirdIt’s probably a good idea to make backups of the files/dirs before deleting/changing them to be able to restore the status quo in case anything goes wrong.

I’ve got a HP LaserJet 1100A an have had loads of grief trying to get the scanner working again since upgrade to Windows XP Pro. Finally, having trawled the HP support site and the fourm’s I’ve found a fix.

Basically you can get it going but you have to install stuff in the correct order. Here are the steps:

• Let XP install its native driver for the LaserJet 1100.
• Install the software from the CD that came with the printer. You will receive a message that the driver is not compatible with XP. Just click OK, let the installation finish, and reboot.

• Install the Windows 2000 HP LaserJet 1100/1100A Scanner Upgrade Utility – lj188en.exe. Again you’ll receive a message that the driver is not compatible with XP. Click OK, let the installation finish, and reboot.
• Install the Windows XP HP LaserJet 1100a Communication Update – lj1100cuwinnt42kxp-en.exe and reboot.
• If your printer still does not work, try unplugging the power plug. Wait a minute, then plug it back in, and then restart your computer.

Credit goes to the original author with my thanks!.

Amusingly in my trawling the forums I found a post in which one chap has followed up with both HP and MS, and, unsurprisingly HP blaim the MS drivers and MS blaim HP. Typical, do they remember it’s us that’s pays their wages in the end? Customer Service, oh the joys.