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21 July 2003

The Land Rover has been voted the greatest car of all time by the viewers of BBC Top Gear. As a Land Rover owner, this makes me very proud.

For those interested (that’d be just me then …) here’s my hippo pictured, as all good Land Rovers should be, in a field.

By the way, I blanked out my registration plate in that photo because that’s what they do on tv … anyone know why? I mean, a quick whois will give you just about all the info you need to come and murder me in my sleep, so why did I bother doing that? heh. humans.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Nathan Pitman: Hippo, hehe! My car gets called ’Nibble’, and the one before that was called ’Willy’! The names we conjour up for inanimate objects eh! :)
  2. § Drew: I’m not sure you should be telling us this...

    (other people are listening)
  3. § Mike: We used to have a red Renault and a yellow Austin at the same time. We called them rhubarb and custard... :]
    Scary story: Was driving though the Blackwall Tunnel in custard and the engine became undone from the chassis and started forcing the bonnet up!
  4. § Nathan Pitman: ’Nibble’ becuase the last 3 letters on the number plate are ’NBL’... :)
  5. § KF: I used to like that particular brand of autos until I saw one of their latest commercials. A religious/cultural ceremony is taking place and the rover needs to get through, the group stops, parts the way, and rover goes through. The commercial ends - ”Respect”. Good grief! Yes, let us all bow down to Rover! Gimme’ a break. Sorry, but it is quite distasteful.

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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