View from the Potting Shed

I’ve been clearing out my desk drawer today — I have a planners’ desk so the main drawer is almost the same size as the area of the desktop — and I discovered a number of out-dated business cards.
One of the business cards was from Eric Masters, aka Magic Eric, a friend of Danny Wallace, […]

Whenever I’m developing a new website and I encounter something that just doesn’t look right when I compare how it renders on different browsers, one of the first things that I check is the !DOCTYPE of the document.
There’s been a major push in recent years for websites to validate, that is the code behind them […]

Snippet of CSS code.
For those who’ve ever wanted to get into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) coding, but never quite got around to it, or couldn’t quite grasp what it was all about; or perhaps you just want to know what it is that some of us coders are going on about, Albino Blacksheep’s Live Design […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this for ages; someone on one of the Psion groups pointed me to it.
It’s a small application that I now use when synchronizing my Psion Series 5mx (or Psion Series 7) with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 called Express ClickYes.
Longtime Psion users will remember that synchronizing their Agenda and Contacts with […]

You can’t get away from sport at the moment. No sooner have the recent Winter Olympics ended than the Commonwealth Games begins. And then the 2006 FIFA World Cup will start. Sometime. This year. Probably.
It looks like Hoth — most famous for being featured in Star Wars, Episode V: The […]

This is great! As this month’s PC Plus and Personal Computer World magazines examine the forthcoming Windows Vista (which is now to be postponed for a public release until the first quarter of 2007) there are still people developing software for good ol’ Windows 3.x.
Calmira XP 4.0 is an application that replaces the graphic […]

A few online friends have pointed me to this over the last couple of weeks, and for good reason. For equally good reason is it listed on the Web Pages That Suck website.
I am of course referring to the Association of International Glaucoma Societies website at www.globalaigs.org.
It’s not just the design. Or the colours. […]