I recently had a go at a simplified Myers Briggs Test
The results were:

Your Type is ENFJ
Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 88 25 33

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

* slightly expressed extravert
* very expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* moderately expressed judging personality

Microsoft’s latest incarnation of its web browser, Internet Explorer Version 8, is being rolled out and taaking a stranglehold on innocent windows Computers everywhere.

As has become the custom for Microsoft browsers, the upgrade(?) makes its presence felt. Even if users have removed previous Internet Explorer startup icons from their quick start bar on Windows Vista or Windows XP, the upgrade enforces its resurrection.

To make things even worse for people who have chosen to use Firefox, Chrome, Opera or other high quality browsers that they have actively chosen to use, IE 8 tries to hijack windows PCs. Upon starting up IE8, it imports user settings from Firefox and comes to a choice of “Express” or “Custom” settings. Unfortunately, embedded in the “Custom settings” is a clause to Hijack user preferences for another browser. When choose “Express”, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 always becomes the “Default browser”.

The implication of this hi-jack is that many users’ choices to use non-Microsoft products are actively ignored, by an automated upgrade. Many users may have difficulty switching back to their chosen product. And why should they have to actively remake a choice that they have already made.

Internet Explorer may be an improvement on it’s predecessors, but the forced switch over to it being the default browser shows Microsoft’s continued arrogance, that nobody should be allowed to choose to use non-Microsoft products, and those who do will continually have to make additional efforts to keep to their choice.

I’ve finally put together my own application for The Best Job in the World.

I appreciate that the video is not a slick as some and that I’m not a bikini clad young lady, but I do possess the actual skill set that is required for the post. I’m also a stills photographer, rather than a video editor.

A flaw in the stylesheet at www.islandreefjob.com seems to prevent Firefox from loading the job application videos cleanly.

Although the promoters of “The best job in the world” in Queensland Australia seem to have fixed most of their problems, it appears that the designers of www.islandreefjob.com have failed to get their site fully working with Mozilla Firefox 3, although it does work well with Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Some of the CSS is broken. The w3C CSS checker shows the following errors:

URI : http://www.islandreefjob.com/stylesheets/container.css
17 html Property overflow-y doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 but exists in [css3] : scroll
180 #animated_title Value Error : margin only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 0 auto 27

These errors may be the cause of the embedded youtube videos failing to fully load or play, although of course it may be some other flaw. I hope that the webmasters for www.islandreefjob.com get this technical fault completely resolved very soon, so that they don’t continue to exclude Firefox users from applying to go to be an Island caretaker in Queensland.

Following yesterday’s post about problems accessing islandreefjob.com it seem that Tourism Queensland’s web hosts have improved the availability of the site for the “Best Job in the World”. It now runs smoothly and efficiently, in both English and Japanese. Well done.

Looking at the video applications, for the $150,000 6 month caretaker and publicity job, most applications so far are unfortunately inarticulate or justifying their desire to get the job by saying they don’t like their current one. Many emphasise the their enthusiasm for the benefits of the post as if it is a holiday, not a job, without apparently noticing that paradise island caretaker will be required to communicate well and and regularly.

So far, there has been, to my mind, one outstanding application for the island caretaker job. She is Christine from Canada who shows personality and an ability to communicate well. Since I’m considering applying, she’s the current person to beat.

In Australia, Queensland’s Tourist Authority is pulling off a phenomenal publicity stunt. Which may be a victim of its own success, as the web site for a single job seems to be barely accessible because of the quantity of hits on their web site.

Queensland are advertising a well paid real job, under the slogan “The best job in the world“, for six month on the the Great Barrier Reef paradise island called Hamilton Island.

The aim of using this job to attract international interest in Hamilton and the other reef islands seems to be being met too well. In the few days since the Queensland Tourist authority started advertising the island reef job, it has attracted the attention of British, American and Japanese news media.

For the last three days, http://www.islandreefjob.com/ has rarely been accesible because of the overwelming web traffic.

I was recently asked why sources for live dragons are not listed in the products section.

There are two real answers:
1) From a human perspective: International conventions ban the trade in endangered species

2) From a dragon’s perspective: How sick would it be to sell your children and relatives? What sort of “Human” could suggest such a thing?

After a strange discussion with a Rabbi in Wilmslow, I found that there are alternative words to “Puff the Magic Dragon” which tell of “Puff the Kosher Dragon“.
Here at Dragon Thoughts, we’d love to hear of any other alternative versions.

The range of recomended dragon products is expanding slowly- Swarkovski Crystal glass dragons have been added and soon there will be Harry Potter and Dragon Lego for the children.

I’ve just put together, and published a little about the origin an reasons behind dragonthoughts.com.

A range of other activities in my life have slowed my progress on adding new pages to dragonthoughts.com, such as starting a new Japanese course and starting a paper on “What are character encodings and why should I care about them?” which I’ve been invited to write by the World Wide Web Consortium GEO project.

I’ve finally assembled the content for the first few philosophical thoughts pages. If all goes well, they should be posted within the next few days. Some of the pages design has been affected by discussions on how to make pages easy to find for search engines on Webmaster world.