Our house is mostly double glazed. Bizarrely, a previous owner decided not to bother with two of the windows. This immense heat hardly inspires one to replace old gazing (more likely makes you want to tear all the glazing out in order to create a breeze). But, we’ve got to think of the winter and [...]

John Gruber has managed to customise his google ads to his site color scheme. I guess Goolge is now letting sites do this as a sneaky peak at the Daring Fireball source reveals:
google_color_border = “818183″;
google_color_bg = “999999″;
google_color_link = “29426C”;
google_color_url = “333333″;
google_color_text = “000000″;
Which is a damn site better than the hideous white/blue combination that stuck [...]

Accessify has just announced a new forum to discuss all things related to web accessibility. Let battle commence!

Still on the prowl for a decent way to manage my online photos, I’m steered towards a tutorial on Quixotic Pixels that shows how to do it with Movable Type. Looks great but involves me hounding my host to installed yet another Pearl Module: ImageMagik. This module basically enables your site to automatically create thumbnails [...]

Went back home to Southampton on Saturday to enjoy a scorching weekend of daytime drinking and all that that entails. I would have left Buckingham on the Friday evening but we were having our new stairs/landing carpet fitted on the Saturday morning. Incidentally, the hall in now looking proper bo! (photos forthcoming).
So I arrived after [...]

I’m starting to think about how to reorganise this site to make it better. My initial thoughts.

Helen and I went out for dinner at Buckingham’s premier Italian restaurant, Prego, last night. I decided to be adventurous and go for something a little unusual. I forget the name of the Pizza but it consisted of beef tomatoes, spicy chicken and ‘goats cheese’. I’ve never had goats cheese before and am happy to [...]