I’ve not posted for a while, mainly because I’ve been a bit poorly, poorly enough to not get much work done which isn’t like me at all, as I normally work through anything. So now I’m really busy, I was busy before and now it’s crazy! It’s ok though .. the end is in sight … quiet …
I’ve started to learn to drive. Where I now live people always assume that you drive. I lived in London for 5 years and in London people don’t presume that you have a car, because lots of people don’t. However here, everyone drives their is no local public transport to speak of and everything is … Learning to drive
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