View from the Potting Shed

This is a Seesmic post that I made this evening about an email I got from BBC Scotland about this blog post from 2005: My JIIG-CAL results from 1985.
According to the BBC journalist who contacted me “the story will be up on the website from first thing on Friday morning and there should also be […]

Today I spotted a bug with Firebug 1.2.0b3 in Firefox 3.0. Here’s what I posted to the Firebug Google Group:
I’ve just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 (on Windows XP Pro) and have installed Firebug 1.2.0b3 but I’m having an issue with Firebug not responding once it has been opened in its own window. My colleague […]

Today I made my internet debut on Seesmic: the video conversation website.
I remember someone leaving a comment ages ago when they heard my voice on an MP3 file saying that it kind of freaked them out to hear me because up until then I’d just been an anonymous stranger behind the written word. Well, […]

Photograph from Unseen Jersey
I remember as a child one of my ambitions was to dig a full-size World War I trench in the front garden. Understandably my parents wouldn’t let me, and to be honest I really didn’t have the energy or drive to do it regardless. Instead, I went back to creating a […]

Photo by CanadianSc at stock.xchng.
Today was one of those days where you know that you need to get something done, you know that it’s important, you know that it really needs to be done as soon as possible but … well, it’s like going on a journey where you’re not entirely certain of the destination […]

Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
Last year, some readers may remember, I blogged about Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor from WebAssist.
What it does
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor is a commercial extension (US $99.99) for Adobe Dreamweaver 8 and CS3 that enables you to quickly and efficiently build a cross-browser compatible website layout with the minimum of fuss. And […]

Screenshot of the new code, with debugging background colours (greys) showing.
I’ve spent much of today working on an XHTML/CSS code rewrite for the University of St Andrews website.
Based on feedback from staff and students, having used the site for the best part of the last year and the desire to make the code more robust […]