So much is going on here, hence my beginning of month silence – lots of work, my Open University course has started, I’m slowly disappearing under a mountain of paperwork that must be done while I can still see my desk… but we’re fine. I have been informed that the evil night bird is probably … busy …
The observant will have noticed another new section in the navigation. I’ve set up another journal in order to discuss some of the themes that I will be studying this year in my course on World Religions with the Open University. While moving things around I’ve moved the articles to a link within the blog … study
I’ve added a ‘play’ section to this site, for random things I build. While updating the pages, my connection decided to bomb out so if you were on the site this morning and got loads of errors I was waiting to get back online to upload my includes! The play section is for just that … new stuff
The problem with both working and playing online means that I rarely leave the computer. Work and play seem to merge seamlessly (and scarily) into one. Thankfully my Open University course starts at the beginning of February which will force me to leave this chair and do some reading – from a book.. and not … working another weekend…
I just realised I haven’t updated this since the 9th… you wouldn’t believe I spend all my time in front of a computer! This site is like the piles of personal emails I have in my inbox, that I need to reply to, and then I look at the date and realise I’ve been meaning … too busy to blog
I like digging through the server logs from my sites. All sorts of interesting things are to be found. In my referers for my business / web development site I find Croc o’Lyle a blog dedicated to usability, web design, information architecture and user experience practices, and also Elegant Hack a one-person website devoted to … things found in the server logs
Ben Charlton redesigns – in standards compliant XHTML and CSS, which is what we like =)
Someone who isn’t five yet is pinching all the bandwidth in this flat. The small person has discovered the web and she likes it! I’ve shown adults how to use a web browser and it took more time than explaining it to the small person, who cannot read yet! However, she knows what the back … The small person discovers the web
HTML is a wonderful thing … on websites … it is NOT so wonderful when it arrives in my inbox by way of html emails. I don’t want your pretty pictures, bizarre fonts or your tasteful pink backgrounds. I certainly don’t want JavaScript and things loading from other servers, I would like to be able … email
The world’s gone spam bonkers! Zeldman has collected a marvellous array of ways to beat the spambots, and my other half has coded a way to redirect known bots with ASP