Decided I’m probably going to dump the Amazon ads in the very near future. I’ve been using them on several sites for going on three years, putting their affliate link in the code whenever I mention a book or a film, and they’ve earned me the huge sum of £12.88 – in total. That’s not […]
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I believe that is the correct expression to describe the emotion of joyful satisfaction, whilst using this type of electronic media communication thingy. Anyway, I have now got my computer up and running. Turned out the motherboard is perfectly OK. What was causing everything to stop was some incompatibility between the board and Win98. Basically, […]
…after some very fretful days without a working computer. I won’t bore you with the details here, but I appear to have another sickly motherboard. This time it may be rescuable, but in the meantime I’ve work to get on with, so I’ve plugged my hard drive into B’s machine again. It’s a brand new […]
Spent the last two and a half hours setting up a server on my comp. I need one to properly teach myself PHP, and to also test out various CMSs and doing it all remotely is too slow. I’ve got Apache, PHP5 and MySQL installed and configured, but the blimmin’ PHPadmin keeps telling me that […]
In web design, accessibility means making a site accessible to all. Sounds pretty obvious and simple, doesn’t it? You make a site, put it up on the web and everyone can read it. Can’t they? Well, no, it’s not quite that simple. Most people automatically assume that building a website is simply a matter of […]
I mentioned a couple of posts back that my memory is getting more and more unreliable. I’ve been thinking about it since, and concluded that the cause may not be old age, so much as my growing dependence on Google. I’m using Google more and more in my everyday life. I want to look up […]
Urgh. Got to work. I’ve been called again for jury duty, starting the middle of next month. That’s when I’m scheduled to be finishing off the Nov/Dec Transit in time for the printing deadline. And when I’ll be in the middle of laying out next year’s AA web diary . And when I’ll be still […]
I’ve got my new machine up and running! It took about four hours of faffing and plugging and connecting and installing and rebooting and… and… And here I am. It’s wonderfully fast; not to boast about it, but I now have 512 meg of ram and an AMD 1.1Ghz processor. And the new video display […]
[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 new design for this blog […]
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