Archive - July, 2004

Off to the Beach

July 28 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Needing a break after the past week or so, I’ve decided to head down to the coast. I will be back, energised and raring to go in a few days (Sunday 1st August).
Meanwhile, check out these new (to me) blogs that have kept me interested over the past few days.

Collylogic
Gary Shewan
Nundroo™
Maniacal Rage
The Daily <div>

Have fun… [...]

iPod Firmware Petition

July 27 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

If you own a 1G/2G/3G iPod, then go sign this petition in the hope that we’ll see the latest iPod software improvements made available to older iPods.
fingers crossed…

Getting Back to Normal

July 25 3 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

With the funeral now out of the way, I feel its time to return a little normality to my daily routine, and that includes blogging again.
Here are a few things to keep you interested while I get things going again:

FeedDemon 1.11.03 is now available.
TopStyle 3.11 beta available soon.
New iPods 7 months after I bought a [...]

Not Missing

July 18 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Just a quick note to let people know that I’ve not gone missing or AWOL, and that I’ll reply to emails as soon as I can.
Having just lost a close family member today (17/07), I feel it isn’t the time for blogging or sitting at the computer.
So normal service will resume shortly.

Zeldman to help with IE7?

July 10 4 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

According to a recent Internet Explorer Team chat found over at aebrahim’s blog, it seems Jeffrey Zeldman, other standards evangelists and big name developers could possibly find themselves working alongside Microsoft on future versions of IE.
Tabbed browsing is also mentioned as a possible feature in a future release of IE and additional accessibility features are [...]

Knowledge Inhibits Creativity?

July 08 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Several years ago, I could easily churn out 2 to 3 mid-sized websites a week without breaking a sweat. Then I decided I wanted to learn a lot more about design, typography, coding, programming as well as other aspects of design industry.
This led to a quiet year or so where I didn’t really do any [...]

Group Seeks to Overturn 10 Patents

July 05 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Finally, those who’ve registered patents that are too broad or threaten innovation may themselves be taken to court.
A coalition of lawyers, researchers and software experts formed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation will try to overturn 10 Internet and software-related patents that the group says are so sweeping they threaten innovation.
Head on over the NY Times [...]

Gurus Wanted

July 05 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Eric Meyer is looking for a CSS guru to write a book which he himself had to turn down.
Head on over to Eric’s blog and submit names of well respected Web Design and CSS gurus that you’d like to see write a book.