Spent a few minutes cursing quietly because none of the url’s I was adding to the links in the HAA site were working… then I realised I wasn’t uploading the page with the links on… I was uploading the page the link referred to… gawd what am I like?? Still… paddling along slowly. Will have … More Still struggling

My first excusrion into usenet was back somewhere around 1985 when I first got access to the nascent ‘internet’ in the UK via JANET but it was several years later after working my way through various incarnations of the software I finally began to work out what the hell it was all about. This was … More Ever tried usenet?

I started revamping the Rugby Songs site… no I didn’t pass on the url… the existing site is truly awful. As part of the revamp I obviously needed a decent theme… so I found one and started reconfiguring links etc to get the basics up there, and create a template to work from as I … More Why are things so hard sometimes?

I’ve just started looking at CSS properly and have just realised I need to know *far* more than I do now. For starters it’s only just dawned on me that I need to create an external style sheet if I want to maintain consistency across multiple pages. Might seem an odd thing to ‘just discover’ … More I've no 'style' at all.

Google has just bought Grand Central Communications. You might not think this is much of a news story… but it *might* just grow into *the* most important purchase they’ve made. The plan for Grand Central is to provide a “one stop shop” for any and all phones to allow you to add any number to … More One phone to rule them all.

I doubt anyone’s noticed but I’ve not been around much. My ADSL connection died and I was limited to my laptop… which has a separate wireless ADSL link… and as the wife has had two days off she monopolised it to access work. Charming. Anyway, as I wrote before, it turned out to be a … More Back at last!

Finally finished off renovating the basic parts of Talk Tidy and sent it live. I figured that at this time of night (in the UK) there wouldn’t be too many people on the old site so I didn’t mind cutting them off too much. Of course those people that had the site bookmarked will be … More Got there!

As I said earlier, I’ve been working quietly on updating the old http://www.talktidy.com site and have almost completed it. All I really need now is a new ‘links’ page and to tidy up a few loose bits of code… and then it’ll be done. I’ve been feeling quite pleased with myself. The old site is … More Almost there!

Today was a *beautiful* spring day. The sun was shining, hardly a cloud in the sky. Temperature was perfect 🙂 I’ve had the screen doors open all day… no flies this time of year… and it’s been wonderful. Classic FM playing quietly in the background as I’ve slowly plodded on with getting one of the … More Summer on the way?

I discovered a great little program that I can only call an ‘organiser’. In use it is basically like a notebook into which you can write, clip, store, add anything that you want to keep. It will create shopping lists, to-do lists, a diary… whatever you want it to be. If you have a pen … More One more thing