Close your eyes and think of England?

Pour tea on it?

That's what it wants you to do. You need to use something that'll make the UK English recoil in horror, like peanut butter or ice cold beer. Once it's suitably weakened you should be able to dispatch it with ease.

Threaten it with excellent dentistry!

Spam got sent from my profile email address to the midwest Buffistas mailing list. Would that be the hijacking of someone's address book that has both me and the mailing list in it?

OK, say you have the following Javascript code:

xmlhttp.open("GET", "test.txt",true);

What does the 'true' flag do?

eta: OK, I think the true means that the client Javascript continues to execute while the server request loads. Is that right?

stupid question, how do you do accented letters in HTML? I seem to have the code (É), but I can't make it work. I've tried putting it between < >, but that doesn't seem to work.

eta: oh, the IRONY!!!!

&eacute; = é

[eta: Good list of HTML entities for other characters:

[link]

Thanks Jessica. I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but when I posted it here to make sure I had the right code, it worked.

OK, I think the true means that the client Javascript continues to execute while the server request loads. Is that right?

I think you're right. See this: [link]

t edit Oooh, a better link: [link]

drool....

MSI's MacBook Air Killer Is a Real Gas

Let's cut to the chase and hit you with the sell: The MSI X340 is a MacBook Air at half the price. Interested? R ead on.

Netbook shop MSI has deconstructed Apple's pioneering three-pound wedge and built what is, put simply, an amazingly credible knockoff. Like the Air, the X340 transcends many of the limitations of the netbook world, though it still has a few of its own flaws to contend with.

For starters, the X340 (aka the X Slim) is considerably better muscled than your typical netbook, featuring a glossy 13.4-inch (1366 x 768 pixels) screen, 320-GB hard drive and 2 GB of RAM. Like Apple's ultralight, it's incredibly thin — about 0.8 inches at its thickest —and it actually weighs slightly less than the Air, just 2.9 pounds. The only real departure from the Air's specs is the new 1.4-GHz ultra-low-voltage SU3500 chip, which is based on Intel's Core 2 Solo CPU. The Air offers a full Core 2 Duo, by contrast. Still, the SU3500 ekes a lot of performance out of its mere 5.5 watts of power: The X340's performance wasn't much worse than the MacBook Air's in our testing.

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Still, it's hard not to be enchanted with the X340, and that $900 price tag looks like a typo when it's put side by side with a $1,800 Air. Put simply: This laptop is a true head-turner, and if squeezing every last ounce out of your bankroll is your game, this is — by a wide margin — the best value going in the world of ultralights.