Due to the number of changes there are in IE 7, MeadCo ScriptX users will need to upgrade ScriptX when upgrading to IE 7.

The latest builds (release candidate) for ScriptX are available from the ScriptX Beta page. The good news is that the upgrade is not only needed but is worthwhile - ScriptX 6.3 provides the latest IE 7 print functionality such as automatic scale to fit and preview dragging of margins etc.

Even better it provides this new functionality to IE 5.5/IE 6 users as well. So, if your users may be running anything from IE 5.5 onwards, you can give them all a consistent print experience.

Airfix goes bust as children prefer PCs.  LONDON (Reuters) - The maker of Airfix plastic tanks, planes and ships that generations of children have struggled to glue together fired most of its staff on Thursday and filed for administration. [via Reuters: Business]

Says it all really, but if you are interested it appears that the Plasticine brand is now up for sale.

There is a better and more informative article on the Register.

This sort of thing annoys me....

Web browser leaves no footprints.  The latest entrant to the crowded Internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users' privacy by not retaining details of the Web sites they've searched. ... [via InfoWorld: Top News]

No, it isn't a new browser - it is a simple wrapper on the IE web browser control in which they have (probably) turned off storage of files in the cache. It isn't even a very well done wrapper - run it and resize the window - yuk. They claim Mac and Linux coming soon, hmmmmm, interesting to see if it is a bit bigger than 264K in those cases.

[Update, and now it has made Slashdot]

The Department of Health said NHS bosses must look at alternatives to treating patients ... [via Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk]

Ahhh, new meaning to that public sector buzzword of the moment "transformational", I see a whole new Web 2.0 lightweight business model where there is 2-way communication with people visiting other people.

Downloaded Windows Live Writer to see how it handles posting of images for services that support MetaWeblog API - despite the implications from the announcement page, it doesn't except via ftp upload. Does weird things with images too.

But I am mostly struck by the rebar/toolbar style - is this yet another invention or is it a rip from the latest version of Office?

Its big, seemingly written in .NET it is 6.4MB of code on disk - the toolbar dll is 140KB.

If you read nothing else about BillG and July 2008 read this: My First BillG Review. [via Joel on Software]

Interview: Microsoft security chief's new vistas.  

(InfoWorld) - Ben Fathi knows a thing or two about security. ...

We also did something that I just announced last night: the ActiveX installation service. This is something we've heard from our enterprise customers. They want to have the ability for an administrator to have an MMC [Microsoft Management Console] where they can approve internal Web sites or partner company Web sites and list the applications that can basically be white listed. So standard users can install those. We have done that and that will be available in RC1..... [via InfoWorld: Top News]

"So standard users can install those" ? I wonder what this means, presumably this is a variation on 'advertise'/always install elevated but built as a white list of things that might be done.

I don't whether it should be called radio anymore - the playing of music to listeners who occupy a geographically diverse space. Anyway, I subscribed to Whole Wheat Radio a while ago - the writing interested me on occasion. Every now and then my aggregator flags up that it is having problems reading a feed (I probably ignored the article saying the feed was going) and I eventually get round to investigating what has gone wrong.

Here is an innovative approach to a "radio station" that I haven't seen before: Wiki Radio.

Widespread HDTV broadcasts via Freeview may not be possible until after the UK has fully switched to digital TV in 2012.  [via BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Sky sets date for HDTV broadcasts]

Hmmm, its the may that worries me. From my probably poor understanding from what I have read, the word should be will. Then again they may be being completely accurate but misleading - it may be that Freeview will never get High Definition TV (HDTV) - if the governement doesn't "sell" spectrum to Freeview then it isn't going to happen - hence, in my analysis, why the BBC is very interested in broadband (but I don't think that is going to work either unless they can get away with "lets make programmes 5 minutes long" [update] or users accept overnight downloads).

There looks to be an accurate statement available (note the use of will not .... at least until):

Freeview will not have enough room for HD signals, at least until switchover. In time broadband may be another way we can deliver HD programmes. [via BBC - Digital - High Definition TV]

People who expect Labour to lose next election 65% [via Support for Labour at lowest level since 1992 - Britain - Times Online]

Matthew Parris of The Times has long held the view that Governments are like a lake into which the stones and pebbles of stupidity, incompetence, sleaze and corruption are thrown. At some point in time, the pile of debris breaks the surface and once broken there is no way back.

I am amazed that 65% expect Labour to lose. It would indicate that the pile of debris has indeed grown tall.