Monthly Archives: August 2005

Not Selected…

By Val | Published: August 31, 2005
…for jury service, that is. Got a letter from the Sherriffs’ Court telling me they now don’t need me. Hmmphhh… In other news, Son is one step closer to getting his own place up here – he’s finally told the estate office that he wants the Balmaclellan property when it becomes vacant. He’s [...]
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Victory?

By Val | Published: August 24, 2005
‘We give up,’ says family besieged by activists And the animal rights brigade are hailing this a some great victory for their cause. How stupid can some people get? Had the family said “Yes, we have listened to your arguments and we have come to realise that you are right. We cannot [...]
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A List Apart

By Val | Published: August 23, 2005
[start geekystuff] The new version of A List Apart has just appeared. It looks great – clean, non-fussy and easy on the eye. And the copyright notice says it’s OK to copy design elements! So I’ve just pinched their stylesheet for close study. I think you may be seeing a [...]
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I’ve Been Selected…..

By Val | Published: August 20, 2005
….to do jury duty! Next month in the local Sherriffs Court. Eeeek! Don’t suppose it will be anything important – I can’t think of any big trials that are scheduled to take place in this neck of the Scottish woods. It will probably be fraud or embezzlement – those are the usual [...]
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Stupid Things I Have Seen (pt 100)

By Val | Published: August 20, 2005
….this morning on BBC News24, an Israeli settler woman who had just been removed from the Gaza. She was interviewed standing outside a bungalow, with all her furniture and possessions pile up both inside and outside. She was telling the interviewer how disgraceful it was that she had been given a house [...]
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Worst Website of the Week Redux

By Val | Published: August 18, 2005
A few months ago, I started a category on here of “Worst Website of the Week”. I come across so many horribly-designed websites that I thought I should start pointing out the worst examples, listing exactly what was wrong with them; in this I was following the example of Web pages That Suck, which [...]
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Today….

By Val | Published: August 12, 2005
…I’ve got to myself. For some reason (maybe to do with trying to come off the Ibroprufen?), I’ve been sleeping very badly for the last few nights. So I’ve been feeling tired, cranky and my arthritis has been giving me hell. So, this morning, when B & Son went off to [...]
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Another Plug….

By Val | Published: August 10, 2005
For Charlie Stross, who has just won a Hugo for one of his novels! (OK Charlie, is this enough…?)
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A quick note or two…

By Val | Published: August 10, 2005
I’ve spent hours and hours trying to make the Oakleaf Circle site work with PHP. And I’ve just not managed it. So I’ve given up for now and put up the HTML version. You should be able to see it here. If anybody knows of a free, simple, lightweight PHP-driven CMS that [...]
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