I caught an episode of One Foot in the Grave the other night, and was struck by how the series was so unlike the usual sitcom. I’m not a fan – I didn’t watch it at all the first time round, and just catch odd episodes that have been rerun. But it is one of […]
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Walked into the village this morning to pick up another month’s supply of stay-healthy pills from the surgery. There were posters everywhere for next Saturday’s “Speed Shear”; I love living in a place where a sheep-shearing display is one of the summer’s social highlights. Managed to walk back all the way with a five-pound bag […]
It’s funny what your mind turns to when you’re lying awake at night, like I frequently do. Last night, I was passing the time by trying to work out why people keep animals as pets. It’s not something that I’ve ever been able to understand, frankly. I like animals, for sure, but keeping them in […]
……….just installed Mambo on the Oakleaf Circle site, and I’m getting configuration errors! Probably have to go through the install process all over again. What a pain. But I saw a red kite today! Got a full spread-wing view, and the ‘fishtail’ was unmistakable. Glanced out of the window while I was working and spotted […]
Decided to go with Mambo for the new Oakleaf Circle site – the installation looked a lot simpler. Besides which, I’ve been having a play with a Mambo sandbox kindly provided for me by a friend. It looks rather fearsome at first go, but it has a lot of features. The only feature I need […]
IE7 is an open-source patch that looks like it might solve the knotty problem of Internet Explorer’s poor support of CSS standards. So I’ll give it a try – is this the answer to the IE box model problem?
…the Oakleaf Circle site is live. Pity I haven’t got the time right now to do anything about revamping the site. Got to scan in loads of poetry pages, plus copy a booklet for someone. Too busy!! Why couldn’t the domain name hassle have been sorted out last week? So I’ve just put up an […]
I’ve just had an email, telling me about a new web development project. And I’m being asked to get involved in it! It sounds really good, very ambitious. I have hopes for it, and I’m dead chuffed to be asked to take part. Time to do my happy dance! Unfortunately, I can’t reveal any more […]
It’s been one of those lovely early summer days here. Lots of sunshine, but not too hot. I’m sat here right now with the window open and the sounds of birds and the breeze drifting in. The trees are in full leaf, the grass is thickly emerald, shrubs are coming into flower. In a week […]
…for the new website to become active. On Thursday night, I emailed 34sp to ask what the heck was going on and got a rely this afternoon: …there appears to be an issue with the domain registration which is being taken up with the registrars as soon as we have more information we will get […]