Oren Eini

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Daniel
24 Jan 2013
07:14 AM
Daniel

Somehow, the rhino picture is not displayed...

Ayende Rahien
24 Jan 2013
07:17 AM
Ayende Rahien

Daniel, Thanks, fixed.

configurator
24 Jan 2013
08:47 AM
configurator

+1

configurator
24 Jan 2013
08:47 AM
configurator

+1

configurator
24 Jan 2013
08:48 AM
configurator

WTF just happened? I posted once, and I currently see three postings, with oddly different times and time formats on the last one.

01/24/2013 08:47 AM by configurator +1

01/24/2013 08:47 AM by configurator +1

1/24/2013 10:47:41 AM +02:00 by configurator +1

Thomas Levesque
24 Jan 2013
09:12 AM
Thomas Levesque

(off topic)

Are you aware that your blog has a bug on Firefox? When you open a post, the page scrolls down after it's loaded. It doesn't happen on Chrome or IE.

Ayende Rahien
24 Jan 2013
09:13 AM
Ayende Rahien

Thomas, No, I didn't, we will look into that.

Ed
24 Jan 2013
11:21 AM
Ed

@thomas Sounds like a bug in FF :-)

Juakali
24 Jan 2013
12:37 PM
Juakali

Firefix is a bug.

OT: LOL

Simon Skov Boisen
24 Jan 2013
12:53 PM
Simon Skov Boisen

On the topic of Rhinos, be sure to watch the new series by David Attenborough called Africa, the fist episode about the Khalahari desert has some unique footage showing the gentle sides of rhinos :-)

Cristi Lupascu
26 Jan 2013
17:24 PM
Cristi Lupascu

There could actually be some truth to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Elasmotherium_or_rhinoceros :)

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