I recently bought a piano … not a real one with strings that need tuning (we’d never get an upright piano up our stairs) but a decent Kawai digital piano. When I was growing up we always had a piano in the house, but despite my best efforts I never managed to learn to play. … Piano
“With these kinds of arguments, the only type of person who’d say no to an accessible Website would be an unethical, money-hating individual. If your client’s one of them, I suggest you run.” Excellent article on how to sell accessible web site development to your clients on Sitepoint.
UserFriendly on the Google changes – despite the “redesign” Google is still full of font tags and other crud from yesteryear.
We went to the Berkshire College of Agriculture‘s open day today, to show the Small Person the newborn lambs and go on tractor rides and other activities that small people (and big people) love. As well as the lambs we saw Alpacas, alpacas are so cool, I’m not generally into animals but I could quite … Alpacas
My t-shirts arrived yesterday from Threadless, I am currently wearing I Am Analog, and I also bought Y Bird. So I have clothes, without having to go into a shop … which is good.
20 years ago I was accompanying my mother round various churches and community centres in the North East to listen to her talk about Fair Trade (and to help carry a variety of large and at times peculiar products). At the time no-one had really heard of the concept and getting hold of fairly traded … Fair Trade
Ma’hed lee qalleel d-Khayey d-Breeyaan, ellaa dlaa gukhkaa.
The computer that had rebooted itself on Friday was fine all day and then the second I turned the monitor off yesterday – it did it again. Turning off your monitor really shouldn’t reboot your machine should it?! It was then I realised that plugged into the USB hub in the monitor was my Sharp … Fixed the random rebooting problem
On Friday the gas men very carefully investigated under the floor boards, I had expected the whole downstairs to be trashed but they did a great job of just lifting enough boards to locate the leak. By mid afternoon we had heat once again. On my way out to collect the Small Person from school, … getting away from it all
Drew manages to find our current gas situation more amusing than I do. This may be in part due to the fact that he gets to go and work in a nice warm office during the day; while I get to deal with gas men, in the freezing cold, while trying to do something that … Cold …