Archive for November, 2006
No birds? No idea!
A bit of an odd one here … When I was making my way around Aus, I kept noticing a car rental company whose logo appeared to consist of a key and the phrase ‘No Birds’. I never did get what it meant – I just assumed it was some Aussie reference that I hadn’t [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2006 under Stuff.
Comments: 14
Think You Know HTML?
Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t – or at least not as well as you thought you did. Paul Haine is certainly hoping that you don’t feel in any shame in putting yourself in the latter category otherwise his hard work on HTML Mastery will be for nothing. The book, which is due out [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2006 under Tech, Writing.
Comments: 1
Pro CSS – On the Shelves Soon
I’ve had a lot of things on the go recently and I’ve been remiss in not doing a bit of self-promotion (and promotion for fellow authors Dan Rubin and Jeff Croft) for a certain CSS book. Pro CSS is the title and it does exactly what it says on the tin – it teaches professional [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2006 under Tech, Writing.
Comments: 3
Fraggle Rocks
Well, it’s been almost two weeks since a little bundle of jaws, fangs joy came into the Lloyd household. She’s settling in quite nicely and hasn’t yet drawn blood with her wayward little needle-sharp puppy teeth. So, say hello to Fraggle!
She was puppy of the day over at dailypuppy.com yesterday which got all the [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2006 under Fraggle, Stuff.
Comments: 6
The World’s Fastest MacBook Pro?
…. fastest to go to the repair shop, that is?
Yesterday I took delivery of a brand new MacBook Pro – it has the uprated 7200 rpm drive, but it’s not the brand spanking duo core model. It was, after all, an eBay purchase.
The box was sealed so I revelled in unwrapping it (although I didn’t [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2006 under Apple, Tech.
Comments: 3