Leo (29) the youngest of my three sons is a bricklayer with an ALL WHITE Ford van, no flags as such but it's had a 'make over' with a role of 4" wide RED tape aplied to each side the bonnet and the rear doors with 'ENGLAND' cut out of all the horizontal red strips (sorry no pic) it rearly looks fantstic!!!!!!!!

Michael

Jake might claim that as Rockall (the island) is British so the cross of St George would be out of place.

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the match to look out for (IF!!! it were to happen) IRAN v USA

the grudge match to end all grudge matches

Jake's dad

And if you're sick of hearing about the World Cup, come on over to the U.S. I promise you won't hear a word about it. ;) Although you'll have to put up with the commericalism times ten once the Super Bowl rolls around...

(trick question)

I'm keen to see how Jeff's Documentum + YUI libs works out. Sounds like a needed facelift for Documentum, which runs horribly slow (in our environment anyway) (and you didn't hear that from me).

Dustin Diaz, btw, who has put a lot of work into the Yahoo tools, is pretty darn smart when it comes to this stuff, and while I know he is naturally biased by employment, his endorsement is having some sway on how I am viewing their toolset at this point.

Nice footwork in the first paragraph to your reply to Lee. Maybe you should be in there instead of Rooney. =:P

It would be nice to think this had anything to do with patriotism, but I don't think it does. It's verging on mass hysteria. What's going to happen when we (let's face it, inevitably) get knocked out? Will it be like Take That splitting with special hotlines set up to help people deal with it?!

I remember all the World Cups since Mexico '86 and have never seen it used as such an excuse for faux-patriotism, especially by the corporates. Have you seen that Mars bars are now called "Believe". Call me a grumpy old man, but I've had enough of it.

I'm not really a massive football fan or that bothered about watching sport in general (I prefer the doing). I like football as much as I like cricket or rugby - nice to watch on special occasions like this. And let's face it the World Cup is an amazing event. It's been spoilt this time round though. I'm starting to agree with Karen who can't wait for England to get knocked out. At least then the 9' flag my next door neighbour's flying might come down. Right now it looks like I live next door to a neo-Nazi...

And all the national tv channels and radio stations have a hymn of their own and are constantly speaking about what will happen... It's really really irritating.

Fly the flag of St George with pride.

but not on your car. it makes you look like a pikey.

...can't be a proper techie then I guess

With regards to your comment:

"..in England all chavs and idiots are driving round with the national flag flying outside all their car windows. It's ridiculous."

I would be interested to hear an explanation on this summation as I think its extremely harsh! I know lots of people who have decided to put the flag of St George on their car or on their house to show their support for the national team. None of whom are chavs or idiots.

I really don't see a problem with people showing a little patriotism when the World Cup comes around. There aren't many (if any) events which unite the nation in the same way as the World Cup so therfore lots of people like to make an effort to show their support, why is that such a problem?

Also, you say that you don't particularly like the flag of St George (which has, incidentally, been the flag of England since 1278) and you prefer the Union Jack. That's your opinion so fair enough. Personally I think that criticising people for flying this flag in support of their country is, as I said, a bit harsh.

Also, bear in mind that people are supporting England (St George's Cross), not Great Britain (Union Jack) in the World Cup hence the use of that particular flag.

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In response to your article, I personally prefer to use prototype along with the scriptaculous libs. I am also currently looking at using some aspects of Rico, I particularly like the look of <a href="http://openrico.org/rico/livegrid.page"> their live grid data table</a>.

Keep up the good work.

Lee

Somebody has been watching too much Dr. Who. (^_^)

(actually it makes for far more interesting viewing than the footie)

The next project for my team is a .NET2 based front end for a Documentum system, and so far we are leaning more towards the YUI libraries more than the others just for the excellent documentation, and the maturity. It may not have all the fanciness of the Dojo, but I have not found something that does not work, only to find the docs "To be completed"

My other team, Poland, on the other hand...

Sorry if you were expecting Javascript comments and not Football World Cup comments :)