View from the Potting Shed

Still no update, really. We’ve still not got the house in Cellardyke, Fife. The hold up is now in the hands of Fife Council. They will not issue the document that is required until certain bits of work are done to the house. As far as we are aware this is […]

Back to the old website mill. I’m beginning work on rewriting the website for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. NYCgb want it up-and-running asap, by this weekend if at all possible. Go, go, gadget-fingers get-a-typin’.

I’ve often thought, and at times said, that society’s trend towards 24/7 shopping is a bad idea. What is wrong with us that we can’t plan so far ahead that we need the reassurance that if we need a pint of milk at 3am we can pop down to our local village-sized supermarket or […]

Have I already waxed lyrical about the wonders of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the development of websites? No? Great. Cos they are fantastic!
I’ve still not found a really good book about them — there must be something out there! I’ve been reading the DHTML/CSS book in the Visual QuickStart series, […]

I’ve rediscovered chess. Hadn’t you heard? Yeah, apparently chess went missing some time last year, lucky I found it!
I had a couple of chess programs, including Waxman, a 16-bit shareware version that I’m still rather fond of, that seems to have dropped off the face of the internet, and a couple of versions for […]

This is wonderful; simple and wonderful: www.localsuperheroes.com/.

Don’t ask how I discovered this website — www.nakednuns.com — but it is very, very funny, and contains quotations and no pictures of naked nuns, which is quite a relief.
The Jack Handey quotes can also be found at //www.cco.net/~jpete/deepthou.htm. I’m still crying with laughter.
Alright, if you insist, I will tell you. I was asking […]