Blogsplit
As someone who writes computer software both professionally and, to pile geekery upon geekery, in my spare time, my thoughts often turn to subjects that anyone with a healthy, well-balanced relationship with technology might find tedious at best. Whenever write a post on a techy subject I always picture most of my friends skipping right past it, and anyone who stumbles upon it through searching for the specific topic being put off from returning by posts about babies and what I had for dinner.
To this end, I've set up a separate development blog to which I'll restrict all posts of a technical bent from now on. I'll probably post more as well, without worrying about boring non-nerds.
Of course, I'm basing this on the assumption that I know any non-nerds. I'm not entirely convinced by that.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Steamy Knees
Some time ago I wrote about a certain den of vice, iniquity and hand-jobs that stood at the end of the street I used to work on.
Four years on, and the most hits I get on this blog are from searches on the name of that very same establishment.
On an entirely unrelated note, tonight we're going to visit my mum in hospital. She's just had one of her knees replaced with an artificial one. Whether it will enable her to sprint at super-speeds and leap thirty feet into the air remains to be seen.
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Feeds and Things
It's just been pointed out to me that browsers which auto-detect rss feeds will have been led astray by this site, which has been pointing to the wrong place for some time. I've fixed it and it should work ok now, such that clicking on the little orange thingy will give you a correct feed to subscribe to. D'oh.
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Frustration
It is said, by those who know, that use of the <TABLE> tag to control layout in HTML is A Bad Thing, and that we should all be using CSS nowadays. Silly old me actually listens to people who claim to know about things like that, but is getting increasingly frustrated at a layout which would take me ten seconds to get working as a table, but as CSS is steadfastly refusing to display correctly in either Firefox or IE. (But never both at once.) What century are we living in? It's like the nineties all over again.
I have settled for a compromise that looks moderately crap in both browsers until I can be bothered turning it into one big table.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
The Height Of Laziness
Not testing your website on the world's most popular browser, that is, since I've just noticed that this site is quite broken for Internet Explorer users.
Still, who cares about them, eh? I'm sure all (two) of my readers use fair-trade, dolphin-friendly alterna-browsers woven from organically-grown hemp.
Anyway, should be fixed now.
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So... yeah...
My blog is now, as you can most likely see, unless you are colour blind, or partially-sighted, or using a text-based browser, or apply your own style-sheet to all web pages in order to minimize the chance of your boss spotting that you're surfing, mostly green. Substantially uglier than the old template, yes, but also a fair bit less default, in the hope that symbolically taking more active ownership of it will encourage me to post more. We'll see. I do wish I had some iota of design skill, however. I am generally useless as far as the visual arts are concerned. I can't draw for toffee, and you wouldn't want me choosing the decor for your house unless you like white, white and more white since I know that any attempt to apply a more adventurous colour scheme will be of a similar standard to my old flat's eye-watering bright-yellow-and-green combination.
No noisecast this week, since my free time is being absorbed by my new G6 Flash. This is a nifty little gadget that allows the execution of "homebrew" applications (and... er... "backups" of commercial software) to run on the Nintendo DS. I primarily bought it for the emulation possibilities - the prospect of playing 20-year-old NES games on the train fills me with geeky joy - but being able to have a bunch of NDS and GBA games on a single cartridge is also mighty convenient. I'm hoping to try my hand at some DS development soon, and I'll post the results here as soon as there's anything to see other than dramatic crashes.
The next consumer electronic item I buy will most likely be a massive memory card for my camera since, as previously mentioned, we're taking a long weekend in Iceland at the beginning of September. I am stupidly excited, and rapidly becoming an Iceland bore, though I won't inflict tedious reams of Icelandic trivia on you just yet. Needless to say, a great many pictures will be taken and Flickred.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
In Which The Author Says "Hello"
Hello.
This is a nice, shiny, clean new blog intended to replace my manky, crufty, old one which was somewhere else. For now it has the defaultest of all default templates, which will probably embaress me greatly when my own attempt looks far far worse. I expect I'll post here quite a lot, for a while at least. The vast empty newness of it is like a fresh field of snow that hasn't been walked on, or, perhaps more appropriately, a brand new notepad accompanied by a nice sharp pencil from the stationary cupboard. (You know: that cupboard that never moves.)
Right now, however, I'd better get this published. Back later...
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