Archive for February, 2005

HTML Semantics

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Semantics is one of the subjects that I’d really rather try and avoid, it just gets so picky and anal, you’re left wondering, what’s the point?
It is an important part of the whole Web Standards ethos though, if you’re keen on the idea of writing good, standards based code, you have to take some time [...]

94%+ of the UK able to get ADSL

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

According to BT, 95% of UK homes and businesses are connected to a Broadband enabled exchanges.
There are some moans about it in the article, but that’s a pretty decent figure really, in the last year or so, a very large number of people in this country have been broadband enabled, while BT seemingly went ahead [...]

Gates in competition praise scandal

Monday, February 21st, 2005

With the PC you can buy from many companies so you get cheaper prices, you get more variety and here with music devices we’re coming in with the same.

That was Bill’s comments in respect to the greatness of the iPod
Now, isn’t that an irony. Complaining about the iPod and iTunes compatability issues, when [...]

Wordpress 1.5 ‘pages’

Monday, February 21st, 2005

after installing Wordpress 1.5 from scracth and building the site back up again, I’ve been getting a better look at this ‘pages’ CMS functionality.
You can see the results over on the right. It’s a nice little thing, but can’t help feeling it needs some refinement.

Here comes my sports season

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

It may only be mid-February, but that means indoor training for Cricket is starting on Sunday!
8 weeks till the start of the league season for us I believe, so time to blow away the winter cobwebs and complain about how much my shoulder and legs hurts from bowling again.

Changing yet again…..

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Wordpress has been upgraded, and now includes funky CMS for normal ‘pages’.
Sounds quite a funky useful thing, so I wiped the site to start from scratch, using the blog as the main site, and entering the various articles I got round to into the pages CMS thingy.

Bill Gives Away AntiSpyware

Friday, February 18th, 2005

He’s done it. Bill’s gone and commited to giving it away.
Microsoft AntiSpyware that is. Very nice of him.
As I mentioned at the forums, could it prompt companies like Lavasoft to moan about stiffling competition though?
Still, overall I think it’s good of Bill to say it will be free. …

Beat off Spyware

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Right, back after a busy few months, hopefully I’ve got some stuff to say now, so the blog will get some use again!
And into something that’s cropped up several times for me recently, spyware, and how to avoid it.