When I was a kid, up in the North East of England, there was none of this pumpkin carving business, we were tough, we hollowed out turnips for our lanterns. If you’ve ever tried to hollow out a turnip, you’ll know that a pumpkin is a much better option, pumpkins are soft and easy to … Turnip lanterns
More proof that our country is being run by fools … Derek Wyatt MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey unleashes his brilliant anti-spam plan … postcodes as email addresses … no, it’s not a joke. More on El Reg. Via Radiac.
DMXZone are running a competition in which you can win a copy of The Dreamweaver Developers Instant Troubleshooter – free entry here.
A List Apart has relaunched with a shiny new design and it’s much easier to get around the content now. The new articles are worth a read too.
My bookcrossing.com release kit arrived today, so I am all set to free up some shelf space by releasing some of my old books ‘into the wild’.
Apparantly Office 2003 will contain the ability for users to set emails to self-destruct after a certain amount of time … great. I take it we shall have to return to paper to be able to keep an accurate track of requests backwards and forwards – something I can use email for at present.
Copies of The Dreamweaver Developer’s Instant Troubleshooter arrived today. Both Drew and I contributed to this book which has been published by Apress. I like getting my copies of a book I have worked on, when you write all you see are the Word documents complete with comments from editors and reviewers and you kind … new book
Drew, after his success with his own Favicon, made me one this evening. Which was rather marvellous of him as I’d never have got round to making one for myself. I had to make one of the decisions I hate to make this evening, I was asked if I could volunteer to do some work … Favicon and time
I met Hiran a few years ago, when a bunch of us used to meet up supposedly to talk about Dreamweaver UltraDev, he’s a funny chap and his blog makes entertaining reading – Hiran de Silva.
I installed XP Pro on my Windows box a couple of weeks ago. I’ve managed to de-uglify it but my main problem is that my machine, which ran perfectly quickly under Win2K, now crawls. It’s not the newest machine in the world (Athlon 1.4/768MB RAM) but it should be able to handle XP … I … Why is my computer so slow?