On this page the following entries were made in the “May, 2007” time-frame.
Archive for “May, 2007”
National Homeworking Day
Today is National Homeworking Day. How interesting. I’m a homeworker. I didn’t know.
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Freebies
You know how you sometimes need a few icons to stick on your site or your blog, and you go googling for freebies and get 96 million sites coming back usually with appalling quality stuff that you wouldn’t be seen dead associating with?
Well I went on a hunt for some top quality images that I could use on client sites and having picked myself up off the floor at the prices and deciding I should have paid more attention in Graphic Design classes, I started to trawl the freebies again to see if there was anything remotely usable that I could possibly tart up a bit.
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Feminist Joke
In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room where their family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and sombre.
“I’m afraid I’m the bearer of bad news,” he said as he surveyed the worried faces.
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Ask Auntie Jaybee
There are many times when you’d dearly love to send an acerbic response to spammers but you just know you’d end up regretting it when he, for it is usually a he, discovers he has a valid mark. There are moves afoot to stop these people dead in their tracks, see my post on Spamming the Spammers, which probably means that I’m about to lose a really good source of posts.
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Hypocrisy and the Accessible MP
What started out as an attempt to contact my local Member of Parliament (MP) via his web site has expanded somewhat. You can read all about it in my Open letter to Richard Benyon MP but to summarise, having seen the parlous state of his site from an accessibility point of view, I felt it only fair to check out the local competition which, with a couple of exceptions was no better and in one case much worse. Much much worse.
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Blogging Against Disablism…
Being supporter of accessibility, not just because it’s the law in the UK but because I happen to care, I often end up having heated discussions with others in my profession about their complete lack of thought when they develop web sites.
Many times the excuse for not doing it is cost, the bottom line.
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