I’ve just spent a week at the Landmark Trust property The Castle of Park, and a good week it is too. Being in Glenluce, near Stranraer it’s quite a way to go from London but not as bad as you might think. Okay, it might have been easier if the flight back from Newcastle hadn’t …
The site of Jeffrey Zeldman on the cover of “Designing with Web Standards” often annoys me, possibly because it’s often a title being wielded by the evangelical types who think that it makes business sense to tell the customer that they have the wrong browser. But this article about Web 2.0 hype has brought me …
My web development company, Exponetic is looking for another PHP developer. More details of the job here but the main skills I’m after are: OO PHP4 + 5, MySQL 3 + 4 (2+ years commercial experience) MySQL (2+ yrs) and exposure to any other relational databases would be beneficial Relevant Linux exposure, especially with Apache …
The furniture place by Bethnal Green tube has had a number of strange items outside it over the years, including this red horse. This photo of a couple of cows being watched by a man and a woman on a sofa continues the tradition:
Have you noticed how sometimes lot of the same type of thing? Peter Kay said “Some days you see lots of people on crutches.”, which I’ve noticed too. Well, recently: I’ve met lots of people called either Jeff, Jason or Steve. There are no other new names around. I’ve seen a lot of women with …
My web development company Exponetic have just designed and built the new website for Friends of the Orient, a business networking club in east London. The site lists the businesses that are part of the club, which is based around Leyton Orient football club, as well as news and information about upcoming events. The next …
I had an invite to the opening of Kinetica, a new Kinetic arts museum in Spitalfields the other night. By it’s own description, “Kinetica is the UK’s first museum of kinetic art”, and who am I to doubt it? It’s quite an interesting place, in a very good setting in old Spitalfields too. The tactile …
Draw a line and then set a little man bob sledding off it. Surprisingly addictive. Watch this video to see what can be done. Line Rider – beta by ~fsk on deviantART
Spam has always seemed mostly pointless to me, but the lengths that the spammers need to go to to get around spam filters just seems bizarre nowadays. I know that ‘Pharmaceutical’ is a difficult word to spell, but if I was going to buy some then I’d make sure that the people I was buying …
This guy sounds quite dim: after being rescued from the Australian outback after a four day search, he decided to go back to the same place because it seems he’d lost something there, so had to be rescued again. BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Tourist in second Outback rescue