rachelandrew

Sigh …

Our friends in Reform are at it again – giving the press something to write about by denouncing the Archbishop as a prostitute; Kings College Chapel as a “Temple to Paganism”; and having the usual go at women Priests. The problem as I see it, is not that this noisy minority go around saying this Sigh …

Baby Zeldman

Best wishes to Jeffrey Zeldman and Carrie Bickner on the birth of their baby, Ava Marie. “Babies are such a nice way to start people” – Don Herold

On being a volunteer

I sit on two committees as a volunteer, there are a lot of similarities between the two committees, both have buildings and people to consider, both have funding issues that need to be considered before even the smallest action is taken and both are made up of mainly volunteers along with a couple of staff On being a volunteer

WordPress

If you are reading this you are seeing the new incarnation of rachelandrew.co.uk which is now running on WordPress. I have to say how impressed I am with the simplicity of the WordPress install and the ease with which it imported all of the Movable Type posts and comments. I’ve also redesigned, with a colour WordPress

Grand trip 2004

My parents have set off on a road trip across the USA. They (and my two younger sisters) have been resident in the USA for many years and now my folks have no children at home they are taking the chance to see a bit more of that huge country. I’m following their progress on Grand trip 2004

Spread Firefox

The Firefox Preview Release has now been released, download it and help to meet the target of 1 million downloads in 10 days and more importantly protect your computer from nasties that are all too easily installed when browsing the web using Internet Explorer. I love Firefox, but if you want to see what other Spread Firefox

Spam spam spam spam

I haven’t disappeared from the face of the earth, or run my car into a tree, however September has been crazy so far. I’ve also been a bit fed up with the amount of spam being posted to this blog and every time I have intended to post I have gone to my admin pages Spam spam spam spam

Driving test

This afternoon I passed my driving test on my first attempt – yay! I went out this evening for my first drive on my own … only caught myself asking the passenger seat if I was ok to go once. I’ve had my own car for quite a while now and I’m used to driving Driving test

Redesigning all over the place

Drew launches a very pink version of his personal web site, allinthehead.com. I’ve also been bitten by the redesign bug and created a new version of my business web site edgeofmyseat.com, which is slightly less purple than the previous incarnation, and hopefully more flexible in terms of the type of content that I can add Redesigning all over the place

Browse Happy

If you have read some of the recent security scares surrounding Internet Explorer and are at all concerned about continuing to use this browser, then check out Browse Happy, the lastest initiative to come out of the Web Standards Project. No deep technical discussions here, just some case studies of people who have switched to Browse Happy