fordie’s Blog

At the weekend I installed the Orange Live box for my in-laws. They were already on Orange broadband, and their old netgear wireless router had died so the FIL decided to take a deal from Orange & upgrade to the Orange live box. As soon as I popped the installation CD into the PC I [...]

I’ve been waiting for ages for CS3 to come out, and Today Adobe have finally released some details about it on their website. Although there’s not a lot of substance to it yet, there’s an awful lot of marketing speak on there and no trial versions yet. I’ve been using Fireworks CS3 beta and it’s [...]

It was Isla’s and my Birthday yesterday. My sister Anna bought Isla a Fisher Price “Kid Tough” Digital Camera which she gave her on Saturday when we all met up in London after going on the London Eye. Isla was thrilled to bits with her camera, and actually she’s taken some pretty good photos (considering [...]

This morning I added a box at the top of the blog entitled “what’s fordie up to now?” this takes a feed from Twitter. Twitter is one of the many social network type websites, the idea of this one is that you can let your friends (and complete strangers) know what you’re doing right now. [...]

I’ve been having various problems over the past few days with CSS floats. more specifically, either background images on containing elements not appearing or floated elements acting as if they’ve run out of room in the parent element and dropping down on to “the next line”. The cause of this is the fact that I [...]

Details are sketchy (or non-existent) at the moment but WaSP have recently announced a new initiative called “Street Team”. The idea is that together we create a number of tasks – challenges if you will – to help the promotion of web standards in your local community. Things that will help get the word out [...]

We’ve had a Sky+ box for getting on for a year now and so far I’ve been impressed with it. For those that don’t know, a Sky+ box is a digital satellite receiver with a built in PVR; it has two tuners so you can watch one channel and record another, or record two channels [...]