Blog Standard Stuff

Following on from the Simply Google idea that he came up with a little while ago (which I re-coded for him in nice standards-based markup with unobtrusive scripts) Chris McEvoy has done the same thing with the BBC. Predictably entitled Simply BBC, it’s another one-stop entrance to all things BBC. And once again, it’s based [...]

In the vague chance that someone other than a family member might be reading this post, I wanted to share a little gem with you …
When I did the round the world trip, a quite significant part of that trip was spent in Australia. A quite significant part of that significant part was spent [...]

Update: It looks like Flickr has changed slightly since this was done and the script no longer works. Feel free to adapt it though!
Flickr provides a lot of tools and ways to change meta information about photos that you have already uploaded but one facility it has not provided is to be able to batch [...]

I recently mentioned on this blog that I was experimenting with a novel method for listening to my iTunes library. Yep, that revelation was that I was gonna listen to every damns album I have, one-by-one, and in alphabetical order. It turns out I missed one in the early days (still on B), that album [...]

My esteemed colleague Chris McEvoy apparently had ‘one of his moments’ (he has these, you know) last Sunday evening and decided he was fed up with having to search Google for some of Google’s more hidden features (oh the irony!), such as Answers, Suggest and so on. So he created Simply Google.

Is it simpler?
Mmm, [...]

‘Cos I’m on the scrounge! I put together a site to promote my forthcoming beginners book on building a web site (with web standards) and thought it would be good to add some quotes. Now, until the book is out it’s a little difficult to know what to put there. Most people I know haven’t [...]

I posted this over at webstandards.org earlier, but thought I’d cross-post it here for my approximate 2.3 average daily readers (hi sis! Hello, erm , me!): April 5th is CSS Naked Day, and this site will be bearing all. To be honest, all I’ll be showing is the markup that *someone else* created for this [...]