After a brief period of unpublicised writing activity a few months ago, followed by a period of frenetic back-end new-site coding that, as yet, hasn't produced a usable new site infrastructure, I've decided that I should just dump the front page of the old site and get on with actually writing things in this blog.
One of the aspects of living where we do that I really appreciate is our proximity to the river. In order to get to the train station (or into town at all) I have to walk along the river bank for about half a mile. This particular bit of river is, for half of its length, a channel off the main river, which has a weir and a lock at the point the channel forks away. A really very big weir, as it happens, but anyway, I digress. The other bank of the spur has a path which crosses over the top of the weir towards the lock, and there's a bridge across the channel at the near end of the spur (furthest away from the main channel). Just by the bridge, on the edge of the water, on my side of the channel, a pair of swans have nested, the female has been on her nest for a long time now, and we'll call her Swan 1. On the other side of the channel, most of the way along, nearly to the main channel, another pair of swans have nested. The female's nest is protected from the people and dogs on the path by plywood boards on three sides (the clear side is the river side, unsurprisngly). We'll call her Swan 2, and she has to put up with well-intentioned people dumping bags filled with stale chunks of bread on her head.
Nielsen gets an amusing taste of his own medicine in Design by Fire's Design eye for the usability guy. Nice job, all concerned. [via [Airbag][]]
I'm very fond of 21 South Street, one of Reading Council's venues, with two small (70 and 100) capacity rooms. We use South Street for Delicatessen, and it works a treat.
I've got a problem with IE and some Dynamic HTML I've been working on.
This Warren Ellis three-part comic has finally had its third and last part published. I didn't know anything about this series -- the first two parts were published a long time ago, during my comics hiatus -- but luckily they've published an omnibus edition containing the first two parts.
Note: When I started writing this I abandoned the list format I was going to use and it rapidly turned into a morass, so I thought it should probably become several sensible posts instead. This first post has been returned to its conceived state: a simple list.
Part two of an ongoing series about how Apple's music products really annoy me.
If everything has gone to plan then my good friends James and Kari ought to be married by now!
I've had a couple of feeds (RSS 1 and RSS 2) lurking around undocumented for a while, and I've finally put them somewhere sensible. Plus, I've added an Atom feed.