Still Breathing

Reading through Staurt Langridge’s new book: DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM from sitepoint.com I was struck by this line in the opening paragraph of the first chapter: DHTML is actually a combination of proper HTML for your content, Cascading Style Sheets for your design, and JavaScript for interactivity. Which is correct,…

I’ve been at it again, slaving over a hot monitor, and I can now provide you with a simple method to check your web server, to see if it supports the wondrous Apache module mod_rewrite. If this makes sense to you then great, please take a look, if not then go back to your business…

Well, there we have it. I turn 28, buy a house and get engaged all on the same day.

New words are a joy, none more so than words that describe perfectly something that’s been hard to describe previously. So, thanks to M@ and Sarah (non-existent online at present) I now present the following: Gazebay (v) The act of someone jumping in at the last moment of an Ebay auction with a slightly higher…

Up: I think we’ve found the perfect house. It’s a 150 year old mill that was converted about 10 years ago in a really nice 4-bedroomed house. It’s on three levels, and has real character – the exposed beams and high ceilings in the master bedroom really add an air of old-Yorkshire decadence. Funnily enough…