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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upgrade to the handset you want on vodafone – for free!
My Vodafone contract is now at a point where I can upgrade my handset, so after a lot research I decided I was going to go for the V1605 (HTC Hermes). I… Read note →
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A bit of a spring clean…
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… Read note →
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Blogging with ecto
I ain’t afraid of no ghost! Ever since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to get html into my posts so that can write tutorials.… Read note →
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A couple of videos
It’s been a while since I posted anything about the family – here are a couple of videos of the girls. Erin is growing up fast, she thinks her big sister is… Read note →
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ahh… that’s that out the window then 🙁 – oh well on to the next!
I was really hoping that I’d be able to go to @media 2007 in London next month but for one reason & another (it not having being signed off by the boss… Read note →
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Push for POSH
Just when you thought we had enough abbreviations in web development another one comes along. This one is POSH! POSH stands for Plain Old Semantic HTML. It’s a phrase first coined on… Read note →
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Fordie’s Form System – a POSH way to mark up forms
Form layout is one area where designers have struggled to find a sensible way to replace tables with nice clean semantic xhtml + CSS. In 2005 Andy Clarke demonstrated his approach to… Read note →
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I put all my eggs in a Murdoch shaped basket
Until very recently had my phone, tv and broadband through NTL (now virgin media); I was reasonably happy. The broadband service was pretty good, I never had any real problems, the telephone… Read note →
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Web design survey
Those lovely chaps at “A list apart” are running a survey to try and get a complete picture of the web design / development industry. Why not pop over and fill it… Read note →
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back in the saddle!
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… Read note →