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 …
In addition to causing me problems buying underwear and wine, my browser is stopping me from wasting my money on the stupid tax. A reader of my blog pointed out that the web site for The National Lottery does not take kindly to people visiting their site using Mozilla Firefox, and while I can visit … Barred from the lottery
The counties that I have visited, shown in yellow on a map. Via John Davies, who is doing far better than I at touring the UK! Made by marnanel Map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.
I wanted to buy wine, I have bought wine before from Virgin Wines and so went to their site and tried to log in, and failed to log in, so I assumed I had forgotten my password and requested that it was emailed to me. This action resulted in them deleting my card details from … Wine merchants
… or can other Firebird/Mozilla users access the Marks & Spencers site without getting the disallowed message today?
So, this morning I wanted to check whether a certain item was available from Marks & Spencer, so I visited their web site. I’m watching the page load when Bam! I’m redirected to the following friendly message. “To protect you from certain usability and/or security issues we currently do not support Opera, Mozilla, earlier versions … You are not allowed into our site because we don’t like your browser
Craig Saila interviews Dave Shea (of CSS Zen Garden fame) in the latest issue of Digital Web Magazine. It’s a good read, Dave does fantastic work in pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with CSS, and I really liked his comments when asked what his advice would be to those launching public sites, … Interview with Dave Shea