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So yeah, this past week (meaning the past 7 days) Internet Explorer 7 was finally released to the public. Betas had been floating around for a while, but I had avoided installing them until a final release was made public, since IE upgrades your browsers and will not let you revert back to an earlier version once the deed is done. Another reason why I avoided installing any of the betas available was because most of my clients still have IE6 on their machines as their main browser, and so, I till needed it for testing.

Okay, so it was released, what are my impressions of it, you ask?

Here goes…
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Well, when I was working on the redesign of this site, I knew I definitely wanted to implement some sort of blogging/news system in place to help manage my random ramblings. Putting things into HTML was fine and dandy, if I didn’t really post much, but I wanted to make this more of a regular habit of mine, to post my thoughts online.

At first, i started off playing around with CuteNews and it’s many variants. CuteNews is a pretty neat little news/blogging system, and it’s very easy to implement on a site. Just install it on your web host, and add a few lines of PHP and BAM! Instant news. However, where it fails is when you need your code to validate.
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