Saturday , March 31, 2007 – 19:55
There appears to be yet another reason why I am cheerful about running Ubuntu Linux: not because it’s pretty and runs nicely on my laptop (better than XP does), but because I don’t have to sit here widdling myself everytime I open my web browser. Seriously, Windows makes me nervous. I use Firefox, with the [...]
Sunday , March 25, 2007 – 8:32
As some of you may or may not know, I’m currently attempting to trace my family tree. I seem to be mainly using Ancestry.co.uk and enjoying myself greatly. Not to say that there aren’t a fair few changes I’d personally make to Ancestry’s software: it’s good, but could be better. Having found the particular entry [...]
Monday , March 19, 2007 – 20:45
I’m a great fan of Lush and have been for many years. I am endlessly taunted by their gorgeous array of soaps, knowing as I do that I dislike soap – even theirs – and the way it leaves my skin all rubbery-taut. I’m not sure then why I decided to order some random items [...]
Friday , March 16, 2007 – 11:15
In a desperate attempt to prevent the proliferation of sticky notes in the around-the-monitor department, I added a feature to our system to provide an electronic version – available from the toolbar – where users could store these scraps of information, with the added benefit that they could now copy and paste them. It was [...]
Monday , March 5, 2007 – 13:29
I’ve set up a blog for our marketing people to start actually putting some content on our company website, and the first thing they did was complain that their first post looked strange on the blog. Hmm, says I and had a look at the source. Full of Microsoft proprietary style information. I realised pretty [...]