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The Daily Roundup: Cookies and a lovely slice of Wensleydale

Acorn Electrons, browsers and the wrong trousers...

By Ian Jones

Published: 18 January 2002 16:00 GMT

Foodie headline of the Day:
Cookies may get a selection box
Brits may have to justify every cookie while Europe gorges itself...
http://www.silicon.com/a50546

Animated headline of the Day:
The right browsers for the wrong trousers
Cracking Mpeg Gromit...
http://www.silicon.com/a50539

Virus alert of the Day:
UK businesses warned of hybrid virus
This one will show no mercy...
http://www.silicon.com/a50541

Good news of the Day:
BT forced to cut local loop charges
Go easier on the little ones, says Oftel...
http://www.silicon.com/a50545

Nostalgic moment of the Day:
Technologies that time forgot: The Acorn Electron
BBC at school, Electron at home, arguments with Spectrum owners on the way home...
http://www.silicon.com/a50548

Reader Comment of the Day:
And still the ZX Spectrum piece (http://www.silicon.com/a50504 ) keeps the reader comments flooding in:

"I too must admit to being one of the many IT professionals who would not have entered the industry if it was not for the 'speccy'.

My old 48K model, has for the last few years, graced my office wall in a glass-mounted box with the words - In Case of Emergency Break Glass - etched on the front."

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