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Jesus H Christ. Am I the only person in this country who’s absolutely fucking sick to the back teeth of seeing England flags attached to the rear bumpers, rear windscreens or back windows (on crappy little plastic white flagpoles that are wedged in the wound-up window) on seemingly every third car at the moment?

Folks, you [...]

This is an email interview that I did for Matt Mickiewicz over at SitePoint – it’s to go into a newsletter that goes out to SitePoint’s various sales reps and distributors. I’m not sure it it’s going to be used anywhere else online, but I thought it would be useful to publish here anyway – [...]

My book got a mention on Boagworld’s podcast, and I thought I’d transcribe and respond to some of the comments Paul made here:

"It’s called Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way using HTML and CSS. What a nice snappy title! He needs to work on his title a bit."

Yeah, not my choice [...]

An interesting question. How about ‘may you go boil yer own head you bunch of frickin’ morons‘.

I dunno, it was all looking so promising when they actually appeared to be asking permission before whacking a whole bunch of spam pharmacy links in the comments field. Jeez, this stuff just never ends

From the moment I was first introduced to photo-sharing site Flickr, I was smitten. I loved it – loved the interaction it offered, loved the ease with which I was able to upload and share photos, loved the fact that storage and bandwidth allowance was so high (beyond what I’d be able to upload on [...]

Interesting … I was considering whether to treat myself to another laptop, and the MacBook Pro was looking very tempting, but also just a little on the expensive side. Today’s announcements about the MacBooks got me all excited again and so I started putting together some prospective purchase scenarios. I have to say, the new [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS, is now out on SitePoint. I received my personal copies today and am really pleased with the end result (it’s surprising how much fun it is to re-read your own work in this format … but it’s [...]