Archive for February, 2006

Or using brute force to solve the prob­lem of a stiff hinge. It is easy in my case when the hinge is seper­ate from the rest of the PowerBook.

So to last me through until the the Intel powered iBooks become avail­able, I have bor­rowed an old Com­paq laptop from work. And even though it is half the age of my Power­Book it feels like a brick. Still it is only for the short term and to make things sim­pler for me on the backend (Apache, My SQL and PHP) I replaced win­dows with Ubuntu. …

I thought it was about time I took a spin with IE7 beta2. The reason to see how the sites I built in the last couple of years looked in IE7 and what remedial work was required.

I was pleas­antly surprised …

Help­ing set up a web site for the Peel Dis­tricts Moun­tain Bike Club, … the club also wanted a forum, …, I chose phpBB, easy to install and get­ting run­ning with a heap of tem­plates to choose from. Everything was run­ning smoothly until it came time to cus­tom­ise the forum and web­site to look seam­less. Every phpBB tem­plate I looked at was table based. Which is a prob­lem for me:…

If you use Meas­ure Map or read Jef­frey Veen’s blog you will of found out that Google has acquired Meas­ure Map.

I hav­ing been using Meas­ure Map for a few months now and really like the User Inter­face. So much so that given the choice between, Meas­ure Map, Google Ana­lyt­ics and AW Stats to get stast­ics for this blog, I use Meas­ure Map every day …

Looks like my week­end in Dwellin­gup was not with out a price. Either that week­end or in the next week or so I got bit­ten by a mos­qui­toe and infec­ted with the Ross River virus.

I was crazy enough to sug­gest to Kay Smol­jak one of the organ­isers of the Perth Web Stand­ards Group that if she ever needed an extra presenter for meet­ing I could do a presentation …