fordie’s Blog

After threatening to do it for almost a year, I’ve finally got round to changing the theme for this blog. I had planned to create my own theme, but having seen “HemingwayEx 1.0″ in an article by Smashing Magazine I decided that this was so close to what I wanted to achieve it wasn’t worth [...]

I’ve started my little photo challenge. For fiftytwo o-eight I’m planning to post a new photo each week to my flickr account. The hope is that this will encourage me to spend a bit more time on my photography this year and who knows maybe even improve my skills. I’m not exactly thrilled with the [...]

I don’t tend to make New Year’s resolutions, I guess it’s because generally I’m happy with the status quo. That said, last year I promised myself that I would be happier and more fulfilled in my work and earn more money, I’d also lead a healthier lifestyle. I managed to achieve two out of the [...]

Back in February I changed jobs; at the time I couldn’t say much about the new job because the project I’ve been working on was being kept secret for commercial reasons. Now that the website is live there is no reason that I can’t tell you about it. Tesco Property Market is a new site [...]

In preparation for launching a new design for fordie.co.uk in the coming weeks I’ve just been re-jigging the site’s categories. They are now organised hierarchically under either personal or technical. This hasn’t made any obvious effect to the look of the site yet, but it will (hopefully) help me achieve the layout I want for [...]

I think I’ve finally cracked the various PC issues I’ve been having – last night I reinstalled XP on my laptop (again). I’d done a reinstall last week, but I’d neglected to format the HDD first; the upshot of which was my hard disk was almost completely full of folders XP wouldn’t let me delete. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

I’ve not been online much over the last week or so. I’ve been off work prior to starting my new job on Monday, so I’ve not been keeping up to date with my usual feeds or reading any blogs. A few minutes a go I decided to check my stats for this site & saw [...]

This Friday is going to be my last day with SSP. I’ve been with the company for over eight years so it’s a big change for me. It all seems very real now. I am looking forward to starting my new job, it’s an exciting opportunity for me as I’ll be working on some pretty [...]