View from the Potting Shed

I’ve got to a point working on my current Website design project where I’m needing to

test the code in a variety of browsers
keep track of which browsers still have issues with the code

Toolbar
So I took my own advice and created a new toolbar which I now have as part of my main toolbar, with links […]

How can it be the end of March already?!
It’s not just me, is it? Easter felt infeasibly early this year. I happened before the clocks went forward (from GMT to BST). In fact, it happened before it had even stopped snowing!
And now that Easter is passed, Jesus has risen again (Alleluia!) and in […]

Mike Arthur tagged me to do the meme that is Five artists, five songs.
Here’s the challenge:
List your five favourite artists, your five favourite songs by those artists and tag five other people to do it.
I find this a really hard question, because it really depends on what day / week / month it is. […]

Not sure why I’ve never noticed this before. When assigning a priority to a Task within Microsoft Outlook 2003 you can click on the priority box and select from a fly-out context-menu one of three options: Low, Normal or High.
But why didn’t the developers adopt a kind of natural mapping approach to the location […]

Last night I had a proper chance to check out my new PC, a modified Cube247 Scorpius ST10. Here’s a quick review.
If you can’t be bothered to read it all just scroll down to the conclusion.
Packaging (4/5)
The system came neatly packaged in five boxes:

PC case, Windows and drivers CDs and component manuals
Monitor
Monitor
Creative 5.1 speakers
Keyboard, […]

Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time.
As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book that’s far from the hundreds of other dull books on CSS which are packed full of dry code […]

For Christmas the lovely Jane™ bought me the Pure Evoke-1XT Marshall DAB radio. How cool is she!
As many of you will know I also own a pink (Jane picked the colour) Pure One DAB radio. So I thought it would be quite fun to write up a comparison of the two.
One

I’ve had this radio […]