I mentioned in my last post that I was going to post up a picture of the book that Max Barry signed for me. Well, here it is! The “who rescued me in a Warwick Avenue Pub” bit was because I was the first one to arrive after Max. When I got in and said…

Hello there! How have you been? Good? Thought so. I’ve been fine, you know… On Friday evening, I came back home for dinner and then headed down to London to stay with Philippa and her parents. I didn’t get down there until quite late, so we didn’t do much. On Saturday, in the morning we…

I always knew it! According to this website: “As of January 14 2005, the IP address of the Python programming language web site is 194.109.137.226. If you add up the 4 octets, you get 666.” Shock! Horror!!! *ahem* I would just like to point out that I do quite like Python although I’ve never really…

I bought a book last week called “Apathy and Other Small Victories” last week, mainly on the strength of reading a very high recommendation on Max Barry’s blog. I’m not quite sure what to make of it! It’s funny, but the humour is quite black. It’s also not a book to read if you’re easily…

Firstly, I’d like to apologise for not posting much last week! I was fairly busy for most of the week, hence me not getting around to writing anything here. Ah well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles sometimes! Right, the weekend. On Friday evening, I didn’t do a huge amount. Philippa came round for a…

I’ve just written a quick tips page on using Apache Struts. It’s just a couple of tips and tricks I’ve picked up from using struts over the past few months while I’ve been using Struts. It might be quite useful for newcomers to Struts 🙂 If you’re a J2EE developer using struts, why don’t you…

Right. So, what did I get up to this weekend then? Well. On Friday evening, Philippa and I went back to Ipswich to see my parents. We stayed there overnight, and came back on Saturday morning (actually by the time we left it was just about afternoon, but nevermind). In the afternoon we went into…

Matthew has written a great little page on why Internet Explorer sucks. He’s basically just used a couple of examples to demonstrate the failings of the handling of CSS stylesheets and PNG images in Internet Explorer. Why don’t you have a look and see for yourself 🙂 (Disclaimer: site may cause offense to those using…

Someone posted this link today on one of the blogs that I read: Create your own Dan Brown novel! It generates the summary of a Dan Brown novel for you, and as the site says “each one as original and well thought out as a real Dan Brown best-seller”. Oh the fun…

I’ve noticed a new “web trend” recently. People have discovered the <ABBR> HTML tag. It allows you to explain acronyms (as I did with HTML in the previous sentence; if you have Internet Explorer it won’t show up but it does in Firefox and other browsers. Hover your mouse pointer over it to see). I…