Extortionate ticket prices in London

Londonders know what it's like to be fucked around by the transport here. We get taxed stupid on loads of things and we have stupidly high transport prices. Why!?!? The Tube and trains are grime-infested, slow, death traps which barely get to the stations on time and year upon year upon year we get the prices bumped up. This year it went up a HUGE amount! I was paying £102 a month for my monthly Travelcard and it went up to £112! Ridiculous! And this is most probably down to Transport For London (who run the Tubes, buses and trams). So I decided that I'm NOT going to pay this stupid amount of money just to get to work and am now going to just pay a monthly ticket into Charing Cross. I can walk to work from there (around 15-20 mins) and I save a huge amount (it's around £60-ish so I save £50!). Much better. Up yours Ken Livingstone!

Eastenders

It has to be said Eastenders is a load of bollocks at the mo. There's no decent storyline at all. I mean, Alfie & Kat? Boring! The Ferrieras? Bollocks! However, there's a storyline that could be utterly cracking, if done right. Andy Hunter. Think about it, he's the local big boy there, but Phil Mitchell is coming back in a few months. Now what do you think he'll do when he comes back and finds Andy Hunter in posession of all of his business? War, that's what will happen! And even though Andy knows a lot of gangsters, even they will fear the one person who's rumoured to be coming back also at xmas: Grant Mitchell. Grant don't care for anyone or anything. He'd slap Andy and his thugs into Coronation St! I'm actually looking forward to Phil and Grant coming back (and you don't normally hear me saying that). You know it makes sense!

Internet Explorer needs a overhaul

Internet Explorer is getting a bit long in the tooth. Forget all the security flaws (who cares? Every browser has them), but the bugs in the engine is seriously pissing me off.

The first one is the stupid rendering engine wait-for-pictures-to-load-before-displaying-entire-pages bug (as last seen on Netscape 4). IE will sometimes wait to download a picture that's at the top of the page and not display text at least in the rest of the page, even though the HTML file has clearly been loaded. Try it yourself. Next time IE seems to not load anything more for a while, press STOP and watch as the rest of the page magically appears. IE never did this before, it was Netscape (which was one of the reasons I switched).

The second one is a really stupid flaw. I like to browse multiple pages at the same time a lot. Especially when I'm on NewsNow with their multiple headlines that are all clickable. Sometimes, a webpage will take a long time to appear in one of those windows but what does IE do? Yes it stops the other windows from completing displaying the window. So many times I've had to close the offending window that contains the webpage that refuses to come up just to get the other webpages in other windows to finish. Sometimes this doesn't work and I have to close every single IE window and start it up again. Really stupid.

The third thing is a minor one but should've been fixed years ago. The favicons. IE will usually only retrieve a favicon and display it next to the web address ONLY when you save it as a Favorite in your list. This is stupid. Even stupider, these favicons are stored in the "cache" area and can expire just like any other webpage, picture or whatever internet file. So guess wot: when this happens, it doesn't display the favicon again. Other browsers just display it everytime you go to a page, just like how it should be displayed. They need to fix this obviously stupid bug.

All in all, if IE doesn't get changed majorly soon, most people will be moving to Opera or Mozilla.