Earlier this month, I posted about a new idea I had for integrating comments into my blog by taking advantage of my collection of photos on the Flickr site and the tried and tested facilities they have for receiving and … Continue reading →

A handy website I came across the other day was sizeasy; enter the block dimensions of an object and see it visualised on screen. You can compare it to a range of common objects, like a pack of playing cards … Continue reading →

… to the IBM compatible PC, released 25 years ago on 12 August 1981. According to the BBC website, which has a photo-feature on the anniversary, the low-end model they released on that date would cost

I have been continuing to mull over making my website more Palm-friendly. Trying to use a web-based email client while I was in Spain (before I figured out the correct settings for the Versamail program) reminded me of how awkward … Continue reading →

I’m working on my pictures from last week’s camino; the first stage is getting them off the camera. Since I routinely want to copy all the photos from the camera to my machine and I want to do it as … Continue reading →

The picture shows the heatsink out of my laptop (enhanced with a few photo effects in the GIMP). It is bright and shiny except for the thick layer of dust coating the top of the copper vents – that would … Continue reading →

It’s been three months since the last outage but we had another day without home broadband yesterday. I’m very pleased to say that it is all working smoothly again this morning! I would happily do without the pain of not … Continue reading →

Here is the accompanying CSS: /* Shadow box definitions */div.sbxouter {background-color: #eee;border: 1px solid #eef;border-style: none solid solid none;padding: 0 2px 2px 0;margin-bottom: 0.4em;}div.sbxinner {border: 1px solid #9cf;border-top: none;background-color: #fff;line-height: 1.2;padding-bottom: 0.3em;clear: both;}div.sbxheading {padding: 0;margin-top: 0;background-image: url(“./images/infobox_background.png”);background-position: top;background-repeat: repeat-x;border-bottom: 2px … Continue reading →

If you’re following this with a newsreader, you may have noticed some glitches last night and this morning as I’ve been playing around with the idea of publishing in advance. That is done by posting the files but setting their … Continue reading →