'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

Because it's too late for anything sensible...

[Poll #1989780]

Let's see... what else haven't I posted yet?

I know! A not-so-random quiz!

[Poll #1944272]

Given the lack of responses on the previous poll and the general lack of posts from older accounts on my flist these days, I have been wondering how many people still read this (or, for that matter, still use LiveJournal). Hence the question. I've also been toying with putting together my own simple stats-gathering trickery (nothing on the scale of Google Analytics, mind), so it'll be interesting to see how that matches up with the poll results.

Readers may remember that I've posted about the long-running roadworks and the rumours of compensation. Well, there's been an update on it. A few days ago I received this letter...

( The letter )

Included with the letter was (drumroll please)... wait for it... a blank £20 Tesco Giftcard for the supermarket in question!

Yes. Well. He could at least have hand-written an apology on the giftcard, or if nothing else signed the letter himself instead of printing a scanned signature. Y'know, some sort of personal touch that shows this is more than just a quick mail merge.

So, the question now is what do I do with it? Well, what I'll likely do is just spend the thing (since as tempting as it is to send it back with a suitably ranty letter, that requires effort and will probably result in me having no giftcard). But talismancer did gift me a paid account about a year ago, and if a paid account is good for anything here in LJ land it's for creating random polls. Plus it gives the peanut gallery something to do :)

[Poll #1799259]

Edit: that was supposed to read "fire it into the sundestroy it".

This is what happens when I keep thinking of things to post, but never get round to actually typing any of them up. So, because I can never decide just what to post, I shall take a leaf out of talismancer's book and declare it to be poll o'clock! (Pimm's optional)

[Poll #1759382]

A usability question for you all: of the four following layouts, which of the following positions for the address bar in a web browser is the best? Apologies for the quality of the screenshots - I hacked together the bare minimum of a VB program needed to make these.

[Poll #1427428]
It's interesting that the major browsers use very different layouts. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 both use layout 1, while Firefox and IE6 are closest to layout 3 (ignoring the lack of built-in tabs in IE6). Opera uses layout 4, while Chrome doesn't really fit into any of these (though it's most like 4).