Archive > November 2004

Spam spam spam spam it’s lovely spam!!!

I’m sure we are all blighted by it on occasion. My poor little sister is being driven mad by it. Markiss collects it and Jeremy gives points out based on it.

But all those of you who lament the state of your inbox should spare a thought for the stupidly rich and well known… after all, [...]

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Happy Birthday to you…

Everybody singalong because the W3C made it through a decade!!!

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Well if that isn’t today’s America in a nutshell

I don’t know what is. He’s been commander in chief for over 4 years and he never managed to visit the neighbours?

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iMAC, iPOD, iFONE?

Well itâ??s possible. I recently added Russell Beattie to my regular reads list and a recent post caught my eye. Russell believes that it is possible that Apple will enter the mobile phone market within 18 months. I certainly canâ??t fault his reasoning and am certain that if hey (Apple) did produce a handset that [...]

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OPML XSLT Transform

Right this may sound a little techy (and it is) but bear with me. I’ve been working on a way to get my blogroll file from Feed Demon (an OPML file) transformed into the kind of list I use for the blogrolls on my side bar. And I’ve done it!!!

I haven’t implemented it on this [...]

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Holy cow that’s a lot of pixels!

Itâ??s one of the new envelopes to be pushed and amazing leaps and bounds have been made over the past 3 years. Progress in digicam development has been so extreme that you can now laugh in the face of those puny Megapixel Mortals for you can be a GigaPixel God!!!

Anybody care to place a bet [...]

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Happy thanksgiving!!!

I have to say I’ve never quite worked out why this holiday exists… it always struck me as a rather greedy way to get another day off just before Christmas and I certainly find very little to celebrate in the historic background of the holiday.

But general cynicism aside I wish all of my American readers [...]

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And this one is for Dan

Who recently complained that my website is full of nothing but technobabble.

Well Dan, never let it be said that I don’t listen to my readers. I’m pleased, nay proud to introduce you to a website that I’m sure you’ll be making good use of after you move:

Butts Meat – located just outside of Swindon and [...]

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Top Firefox tip of the day

If you need to look up the meaning of a word, don’t reach for the dictionary… don’t even bother firing up dictionary.com.

If you have a Firefox window open simply type “dict word” where word is the word you wnt to look up and Firefox will do the work for you.

(you can drop the quotation marks!)

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Creating Accessible Forms

Sorry to start the day with a techy post but this is a very useful article for anyone who works with HTML forms on a regular basis.

Web Usability – Accessible Forms

What I find really amazing is that so few of the websites out there actually make use of these guidelines.

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