Archive - February, 2004

Stairway to Hell

February 29 4 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

You know those emails that you get from members of the family that are normally sent to everyone in their address book and contain pure utter nonsense?
Well I actually found one of them interesting enough to post on my blog.
Listening to Led Zepplin’s Stairway to Heaven backwards is one of those things that make [...]

Carling Cup Final Misery

February 29 9 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Just got back from watching the match and am thoroughly disappointed at the result.
Call me a sore loser, call it sour grapes, call it what you will but I’ll still tell you that I think Referee Mike Riley had a stinker of a game and let Middlesbrough get away with far too much. Every “foul” [...]

Carling Cup Final

February 29 8 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

My beloved Wanderers take on Middlesbrough today in the 2004 Carling Cup Final.
I was hoping to be in Cardiff with them, but due to a major farce with the ticketing arrangements that wasn’t to be so. So I’ll be tucking into plenty of beers from early morning till late evening and hopefully celebrating a win.
Good [...]

Wordpress Update in Progress

February 28 6 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

I’ve almost completed the port over to WordPress, and only have a few things left to fix.
Rather than the default WordPress template, I’ve chosen one from Alex King’s site that was designed by B A Khan.
I’d better get back to trying to sort the Permalinks & Feed URLs out…
Update
I’ve set up automatic redirects for the [...]

Moving to Wordpress (for a while)

February 28 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

I’ve decided to give WordPress a whirl, as I’d like to get back to learning more about PHP. Seeing as WordPress is built around PHP & MySQL I think it’ll be beneficial to my University studies as it will allow me to learn more PHP while also enjoying myself blogging.
As the architecture behind WordPress is [...]

Accelerate Your Site!

February 25 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Cost-Effective Website Acceleration Part 1 – Client Side Optimization — An article that looks at various tweaks and changes that you can make to your (X)HTML, CSS & JavaScript code to speed up your site.
Personally, I think parts 2 & 3 look to be more interesting than the first.

WinZip 9.0 Available

February 25 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

WinZip 9.0 is now available from the re-designed WinZip.com

Benefits of Web Standards

February 24 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!

FeedDemon 1.10 Beta 3

February 21 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Nick has released FeedDemon 1.10 Beta 3, which you can grab from the FeedDemon beta page.
Release notes/changelog
Important: This beta test version is intended only for registered customers. If you haven’t purchased FeedDemon, then this beta will not run on your computer.

Pauls Back!

February 19 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Paul Smith is back in the world of blogging, complete with a gorgeous new redesign.
Welcome back mate!