I’m seriously considering making the urls in this site more usable. Having read Mark Pilgrim’s article Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type I’m very keen. Basically, rather than getting URL like …/archives/0001.asp you’d get …/archives/2003/09/18/a_test_page.asp which would make slightly more sense to a human being. However, this would mean that for a period of unknown time [...]
Published on September 18, 2003
Filed in Web design
I’ve been trying to find a way to run old dos games on Windows 2000 for some time. I’ve had very little luck. Does anybody know how to do this? I’ve got loads of quality games like frogger, digger, spacewar, bushido, xenon 2, gods and pac-man that are just aching to be played. Somebody must [...]
Published on September 17, 2003
Filed in Web
Hugh came up with the splendid idea of putting up a pergola in our side garden in order to create a nice outdoor room that is on flat ground next to our house.The rest our garden is on a bit of a slope and is totally south facing.
Once the structure is in place, we could [...]
Published on September 17, 2003
Filed in Personal
Inbox getting overun with hideous spam? Get SpamPal. It’s totally free and works with most email clients. Once installed, SpamPal sits in your system tray and you can forget all about it - except spam won’t be causing you so much trouble. Now that’s a gotta have surely?
Published on September 16, 2003
Filed in Web
A few cunning Movable Type tricks later and we have a Recent comments page. Now I can keep up to date with people posting on ancient posts and possibly get back to them. Cheers to Stephen who told me how to get the thing working.
Published on September 15, 2003
Filed in Web design
Has your car been clamped whist you were shopping unawares? Never fear, Angle-Grinder Man is here. Only a quick phone call away, this exceedingly useful superhero will cut your vehicle free. Yes, he even has his own website!
Published on September 15, 2003
Filed in Funnies
Some viewers (IE5/Mac) will only be getting this site in plain text at the moment. It’s retro and it’s cool and it also enable you to use the site’s accessibility functions. The reason for this is that there is no ‘basic.css’ style yet and some of the linked stylesheets have no title attribute. All will [...]
Published on September 15, 2003
Filed in Web design
13:29 update
If this site looks insanely weird to you, please hit your reload/refresh button. Examples of ‘weird’ include: site in plain text only, site half grey/half blue etc.
I’ve rebuilt my Movable Type templates so that I can take full advantage of style switching. This means that soon you’ll be able to choose from a variety [...]
Published on September 12, 2003
Filed in Web design
Web design stuff: What Do I Know reports that at long last Flash is to have CSS support. Praise the Lord.
Published on September 11, 2003
Filed in Web design
Possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen this week. Patrick Moore plays the xylophone!
Published on September 11, 2003
Filed in Funnies
Guy someday will find the mysterious cities of gold. #
This site is being redeveloped. Apologies if things don't look or act as you expect. I'm spending little bits of free time making some much needed changes.
GuyWeb is the personal website of Guy Carberry, a web designer based in Buckingham, England. He currently works full-time as a web designer for the Open University. He also undertakes interesting freelance projects where time allows. You can contact Guy by emailing Guy at this website's address.