… and not of the muddy type! I have a static problem so bad that I have to take off my shoes before I start work to ensure that I earth myself, and I have computers that have to have their power discharged (switch off at the back, then press the start button) before they … Strange earth problems
My sister returned to the USA yesterday and my mother arrives from the USA early tomorrow morning! The Small Person is in her element with people arriving to play with her. I’m working on various things most of which remain under wraps for the time being. The main exciting news around here is my fax … April
This is what you get if you click through the link that says ‘first time here’, on the British School of Motoring Web site. Well thank you, now that you have instructed me on how to use the web and I have downloaded an insane variety of plugins, I may now attempt to find out … Theres nothing like a nice usable web site
Al Sparber writes about software piracy, citing the places that allow people to remain anonymous on the net as a big cause of this problem. I don’t disagree on the fact that is the case, after all if we were all tied down to our IP and email address in the same way we are … Free speech
I’m so jealous. Why does the UK get no decent web conferences? No Fair 🙁 The people upstairs here seem to have developed a strange and eclectic taste in music. For several months all I have heard from the people upstairs has been strange singing at 11pm on a Sunday evening, the occasional episode of … The UK Needs a web conference
The beginning of March heralds the fact that I have been, successfully, running my own business full time for 6 months. Which is cool. It also signifies the due date of my first essay for my Open University course which is due on Wednesday coming and is all written and ready to mail out today … well … that was a short month
The small person had her first taste of life-without-internet connection this weekend. “Agh.. somethings happened to my pooter!” she yells, running into my room. An investigation revealed a ‘page cannot be displayed’ – the reason being the apparant demise of my ISDN provider. The above meant a return to pay per minute internet access for … mummy… where’s my internet?
I have been posting random stuff here for a whole year! A whole year of random rambling available for your pleasure. I’ve just got back from the hospital where they prodded at my neck in order to perform a Carotid Duplex. Thankfully this is really just an ultrasound scan – just the same sort of … One year on …
This article based on a survey taken by the Guides Association tells us the dreadful news that girls today don’t know how to boil an egg. I appreciate that the article is based on research done by an all-female organisation, but surely the emphasis should be that young people (regardless of gender) are not gaining … modern “girls” can’t cook?
Some good CSS tests for designers caught my eye over at chriscassell.net, nice site too.