I normally refrain from posting about work but this is a bit of a special occasion. I’m finally leaving the company I’ve been working at for the last 6 years. When I first joined, it was called WebFusion, then Host Europe, and finally PIPEX. With each name change came …
RSS - Real Simple Syndication. It’s a way for me to publish my blog entries (but it could be anything really) that can be read by another site for inclusion into their pages. One example might be a news site that publishes an RSS feed so that you can include the latest …
It’s official. Lori now has a degree - a B.A. (Hons) Fine Arts. The graduation ceremony was today and it took less time than I thought it would. It was held in the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham city centre and inside it was absolutely packed with all the students in the …
Well, the latest book in the Harry Potter series has been out for a few days. I actually heard about it in a podcast I was listening to on Saturday morning (16th July) whilst on my way to Tesco for some groceries. I went into Tesco and right in front of the entrance was a huge …
Thought I’d put my Google Adsense code into a couple of my old web games to see what they come up with… Rock, Paper, Scissors - a web version of the classic game. Throw a snowball - Seasonal script that lets you throw snowballs at people over email. The adverts on …
It’s been a few weeks now since the last comment was posted. Either the changes I made to the comment system have broken the whole lot, or else it’s defeated the spammers finally. Hopefully it’s the latter option! Wish I could remember what I did to the comment …
Andy sent me this link earlier via instant messaging… http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6410585172 A very amusing eBay item listing.
We decided, rather spur of the moment, to go to the beach on Sunday afternoon and ended up going to Skegness since we’d never been there before. Not a bad beach really - it was quite quiet considering it was a pleasant Sunday afternoon. I was expecting there to be more kids …
Got sent this link earlier… http://www.octodog.net/ It’s a thoroughly strange product but I guess it makes hotdogs more interesting for kids.
Ok, tried to sort out the online account feature on Orange’s website. Password doesn’t work so I click on the “I’ve forgotten my password” link. Now most places will just email you a new password or a link to a reset your password page, even a bank …