sorry about the lack of updates, I’d only have bored you silly. I’ve been spending the weekend working on a Dreamweaver extension, playing with CSS (Drew bought me Cascading Style Sheets – the definitive guide), and working on a new section for this site on the various web development type things I am playing with … all quiet …
Today the Small Person started nursery school. Today was a day i had never envisaged, perhaps mostly because I could never imagine her big enough to be going to nursery but also because I had planned to home educate her. Things change. She was so excited as we waited outside with the other children. She … First day
Last night my childminder asked me who she should contact if anything happened to me, I didn’t show up to get the small person.. whatever.. It occured to me this morning that the most likely thing to happen to me is death by boredom. I seem to do the same thing, all day, everyday … … has anyone actually ever died of boredom?
Thanks to Plasticbag for pointing me in the direction of Seethru which contains such delights as 10 commandments for net newbies. Lots of entertaining reading there.
I was cheered up late this afternoon by these more appropriate windows messages. I must try and figure out why these pages shift up slightly in NS6 and Konqueror, I thought I had implemented a fix but that worked fine in IE5.01 but went screwy in IE5.5, ah well, its such a small thing. There … The quest continues
Welcome to my redesign! It doesn’t all quite validate yet, although both stylesheets (which are rather important when one has no tables) do. Anyone visiting this site in outdated browsers will now see the lovely grey upgrade page, pointing them to some information about how to see the web as it is intended…. I’m sure … what no tables?
Back in the bad old days. September 1996 to be exact. I discovered the internet, obviously it had been discovered before then, but not by me. It was all new. I also discovered, almost by accident, that one could build a webpage. The whole new world that was version 2 browsers lay before me. I … The Joy of HTML
I saw the sweetest thing this morning as I staggered into work. As I was walking up the drive the smallest, fluffiest bird I have ever seen hovered right in front of me and then ‘plop’ fell onto the ground. I moved back a little way so as not to scare it, but as I … small things
I’m really fed up of being ill now. Not only am I feeling guilty about not being at work, I am feeling too grotty to just enjoy being able to snuggle up under the duvet and keep warm as I can’t stop coughing whatever I do. I’ll have to try and get into work tomorrow. … still poorly sick
The poorly sickness of yesterday turned out to be a nasty chest infection neccesitating a visit to the doctor. I hate going to the doctor. This one was very cheerful and told me to relax more then gave me evil antibiotics which I wouldn’t normlly take but I seem to be getting worse not better. … Always read the label