RSS in Plain English
April 30th, 2007
It’a all about Cascading Style Sheets (css)
April 26th, 2007
This site beautifully demonstrates how easily/quickly style sheets can change the appearance of a web site:
Simple to follow and very informative:
http://hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html
This one looks pretty useful:
http://www.dissurion.com/category/css/
Best reference site out there:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
Top 5 CSS layout tips:
http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/top-5-css-layout-tips/
Some more advanced css:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/simple_vertical.html
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/uberlinks/
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/
These links show how style sheets behave differently between various browsers and why:
How many times have you heard someone say: “Why does my site look different in IE than in Firefox”?
Tea is good for ya!
April 23rd, 2007
Well, I do love a good cup of T but according to this article, tea is a ‘healthier’ drink than water!!

Just for completeness, here are some articles on Green Tea:
Good sites for car boot sales
April 20th, 2007
Try this site for listings.
http://www.boot-fairs.co.uk/London.htm
http://www.carbootjunction.com/search-by-town.php
http://www.countrysidepromotions.co.uk/
http://groups.msn.com/CarBootSales/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-gb
These have pretty old info, but you never know:
http://www.car-boot-finder.com/
http://www.carbootcalendar.com/
And here are some examples in SW London:
Sedgehill Car Boot Sale – Catford
Sedgehill Field, Sedgehill Road, Catford, London, Greater London, SE6
Phone: 020-8309-5696
Map
Battersea Technology College Car Boot Sale – Battersea
Battersea Technology College, Battersea Park Road (A3205), Battersea, London, Greater London, SW11 5XX
Phone: 07941 383 588
Map
New Covent Garden Market Car Boot Sale – Lambeth
New Covent Garden Market, Nine Elms Lane, Lambeth, London, Greater London, SW8
Phone: 01895 639912
Map
Shepherds Bush Car Boot Sale – Sherpherds Bush
Silver Road, Aerial Way, Sherpherds Bush, London, Greater London, W12 0RP
Phone: 01753 663656
Map
Wimbledon Stadium Car Boot Sale – Wimbledon
Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane, Wimbledon, London, Greater London, SW17
Phone: 01932 355538 0870 840 8905 (Thanks to P Morgan for supplying the correct number)
Map
The ancient fears stirred by women at war
April 18th, 2007
Excellent article by the Independent’s columnist, Joan Smith.
Scott Ritter on Iranian Nuclear Program
April 17th, 2007
Ritter, a former UNSCOM weapons inspector, was the single individual who, before the war, stuck his neck out stated that Iraq did NOT possess WMD. He was all over national TV with this message but was dismissed as heretic.
He now comments on Iran.
Optimo
April 16th, 2007
Optimo is the name for a club in Glasgow.
I bought a CD put out by these guys titled ‘Kill the DJ’ and came across their website when listening to WMFU and checking out their playlist. Seems like a good source for electronic/rock/punk etc music from 50s to now.
Download the ‘electrobeat’ mix on this page and read the notes.
There are lots of mixes on the site.
Good stuff.
Some good sites to check out (init)
April 14th, 2007
This is a good site for coding/design with some very good links to follow.
This one has a nice blog area and more super links.
A superb site for doing web design using CSS:
This is a useful site that allows you to preview and compare how on screen text will look – useful for websites as you can export CSS from it too.
Free electronic music to download
April 13th, 2007
Mostly done by unknown artists and you need to register to download but I found a couple of good tracks worthy of playing out there!!
The Hype Machine follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here…
Tracking!
April 12th, 2007
Use Google’s Web Analytics to track visitor’s traffic on your site.