On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2008” time-frame.
Archive for “January, 2008”
Painfully Funny
There are thousands of blogs around and many are exceedingly banal. People set them up purely because they think they ought to and I’ve lost track of the “what should I make my blog about?” posts on Bulletin Boards. My answer is usually along the lines of - don’t bother until you have something to say, but occasionally one surfaces with a really interesting idea.
I came across one today that I should really call unusual rather than good. No, actually, it’s appallingly good in an atrociously bad kind of way.
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Narcissus and his part in my family
One of my pastimes, when I have a few spare weeks, is family history. I’m currently doing my mother’s maternal line which has provided a few surprises, perhaps the most notable being that I appear to be a not so distant cousin of the infamous Paris Hilton. Moving swiftly on……
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IE8 and the vaunted Acid2 pass
I made a tongue in cheek comment about it at the time on a blog where people were saying how great it would be only having to design for one browser, no more hacks.
My comment was along the lines of, don’t get too excited, you might end up designing for IE6, IE7, IE8 Standards Mode, IE8 Quirks mode…..
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How was it for you?
I’m feeling rather inadequate. I’ve been looking at the roundups of 2007 on some of my favourite blogs and these industrious people have posted lots of worthy articles of immense help and/or interest to the web community.
I seem to have posted dross.
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Spam or not spam? Oooh tough call.
In amongst today’s crop of spam trying to get me to part with my money by fair means or foul, I found the following examples. I despair, I really do……
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