Notes from the long web
Making, breaking and figuring things out.
Hi, I’m Mark. This site contains an archive of my ramblings from the last 20 years. I keep planning to write more—who knows, maybe I will now?
Latest notes
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Hype 2.0
There is a huge buzz in the web community at the moment about “web 2.0″. Web 2.0 is the term applied by some people to products of the recent trend for developing… Read note →
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This blogging lark is hard work
I started my blog just over a month ago now. Ever since then I have been working on an article about using lists for form layout, and it’s still not quite ready;… Read note →
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moblogging…
It would be dead handy if I could post to my blog from a mobile. I rarely find time to right entries for my blog at the moment, being able to post… Read note →
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New online back up tool
Last night I downloaded a new tool called “Carbonite” at home. It backs up your files from your PC to their servers over your broadband connection. There’s a 15 day free trial,… Read note →
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Sometimes the little thing you forget causes you the most pain
I spend a lot of time wrestling with CSS working round IE’s broken box model. A lot of this pain could have been avoided, if only I’d remembered about the “doctype switch”.… Read note →
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Get your free copy of “Computer Weekley”
Those lovely people at Reed business are offering you chance to get your hands on a free Computer Weekly subscription. Get yourself signed up. Read note →
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Get ready for IE7 – now
The IE team have Today announced on their blog that IE7 (Seven) will be pushed out to Windows XP users using MS automatic update (contrary to what Chris Wilson told Vitamin). This… Read note →
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my first wordpress “hack”
xhtml compliant flickr widget I’ve made some changes to the flickr sidebar widget. When I installed it I didn’t realise that it used tables for layout, then I validated my page and… Read note →
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Baby scans
They’ve been a long time coming, but here are the ultrasound scans of baby Ford #2 (due November 2006): 20 week scan 12 week scan 9 week scan Read note →
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Hello!
I’ve been looking for a decent blogging tool for some time. What I really wanted was an ASP or ASP.net based tool, however after a great deal of searching I was unable… Read note →