Archive for June, 2005

As a native English speaker, I tend to accept the Americanisms on the internet and will instinctively ignore anything on a web page offering alternative languages. British English (or ‘English’, as I like to call it) is hardly a localisation priority if your site already has a US English translation that everyone can read, [...]

John Oxton has posted about the rather spiffy new Microformats specifications which are starting to grow in maturity and usefulness. John’s initial reaction goes like this:
My initial impression of Microformats from logging on to the site was that this was some major new technology, so technical is the blog and Wiki. I was a little [...]

As of yesterday, I own a lawnmower. This seems very, very wrong (although since the one provided by our landlord had smoke coming from it, it is ultimately very right).

I’m 21 years old. Should I really have such assets like this of my own? I can’t get used to the idea, really.

I’m probably the last of the ~400 delegates to complete their ‘proper’ @media write up, but I shan’t be discouraged. I may, of course, sound like an old record.

You may be aware that I’ve been quietly and not-so-quietly planning a major redesign of these pages for a while now. It involves switching from b2Evo to Wordpress, tweaking it, customising it and finally revealing a new look to call my own.

There journey so far has not been entirely productive. In journey terms – for [...]