Archive for May, 2005

Why am I in work?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

A Bank Holiday, sunny weather, 3 cricket matches and drinking on a Monday night is not a good combination for working on the Tuesday morning.
Yesterday was baking hot, so I was quite thankfull that we batted first and I could lounge around in the sun for a while, before having to bowl later on when [...]

Banks to speed up, slowly

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Via Lockergnome I found an article at The Register about how the internet is forcing UK banks to speed up transfers.
Two things to say about it, about time they got off their arses, and why do we have to wait till the end of 2007 (plus the extra time as it will obviously be late) [...]

Google Ads in RSS Feeds

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Ugh, there are 2 feeds I read at the moment that use the new Google Ads. I’m seriously considering unsubscribing from them, as the ads make the posts difficult to read.

CSS Image maps

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Not a lot has excited me in the world of web design very recently, I keep looking at the lack of posts and thinking “but what can I write about”?
Well, after a couple of links to his site from the forums in the last few days, Stu Nicholls had me grinning with glee [...]

Council moving to StarOffice Suite

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Bristol City Council (South West England, about an hour from me) are rolling out Sun’s StarOffice to 3,500 PC’s.

Gov tells Schools to dump Microsoft

Monday, May 16th, 2005

Reported in a few places, I’ll link to /., BECTA (the IT wing of the Department for Education and Skills) is suggesting schools in the UK could save loads of money by dumping Microsoft, and going open source for their software.

CSS Reboot - 2005

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Now I’ve been quite pleased with the latest tweaks to this place, think it looks a lot better than it has done in the past. But this morning I’ve been looking at the CSS Reboot 2005 gallery and wow do I look pretty tame! Not that I’ve ever professed to be a ‘designer’ [...]