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A small techie announcement: I built a tool that lets you type in a whole bunch of sections that you’d have on a page (that would relate directly to ids on the page) including the nesting of each ection and quickly create an XHTML template from it. Head on over to Accessify and see what [...]

UPDTE: but they are working on it! See my comment below
Dear Bloglines people. I have a problem with this sentence:

"You might have noticed a few fancy little changes we’ve made to your feed tree on the left pane today."

My problem is that the ‘little’ change I’ve noticed is that it no longer works [...]

What would ITV do for drama if Robson Green were to fall victim to some nasty head-on collission with a bus type accident?
How many versions of the Confused.com advert are there at the moment? They got rid of the really irritating one from days of old, thankfully, but appear to be trialling untold numbers [...]

Genius. A question that I had to answer as part of a Health & Safety quiz on the company intranet (click on the thumbnail below):

Another similarly-themed highlight was the question about how to get something off a tall cupboard that you can’t reach – one of the options being ‘get something long to nudge it [...]

Is it just me, or does Squiggle off Eastenders look like one of the caricatures off Bo Selecta?

I was trying to write a little favelet that loops through a bunch of HTML elements on any page and finds all the id values. Once it’s done, it inserts it into the start of the page for info. Why am I doing this? I wanted to get some stats about what ids we use [...]

I don’t do a lot of ’sites for friends’ and my portfolio is … well, what portfolio? That’s the thing about working for a web team in a big company – there’s very little that you can point to and say "That was mine" and for it to be totally yours and not watered down. [...]

You know, I wouldn’t say that I am. I don’t go out of my way to get myself seen, but I always seem to ‘do stuff’ rather than let it happen (I wish that were true of my activities on the web, too, in which I’ve been distinctly passive of late – if you excuse [...]