Archive for December 2006
What’s with New Year’s Eve? 31 Dec 2006
I was talking to one of my friends about this recently, what has become of New Year’s Eve? In the run up to the Christmas period and the week or so after the return to work you constantly face the question of what you did on New Year’s Eve. It’s become this big event and [...]
I Want to Wii 29 Dec 2006
I’m not much of a game player, computer games anyway. If you trawl back through the archives of this site you’ll notice it is a topic that is noticeably absent. I was bought a console once as a present (a PS1), used it a few times and then it got stuck in the bottom of [...]
Please Use CSS 22 Dec 2006
I haven’t built a site using tables for layout in a long time, something like five years. In fact, I’m so allergic to tables sometimes I have remind myself when it’s OK to use them (as in, for tabular data). The reason for bringing this up is because part of my new job involves building, [...]
Selecting a Book 16 Dec 2006
The Guardian has an article on how to choose a book from the growing number of yearly releases. The suggestions boil down to the use of the ‘McLuhan test’ — turn to page 69 and read it, if you like it, take it — check bestseller lists in other countries or pick rising stars to [...]
Blue is not a Seasonal Colour 13 Dec 2006
Not sure what’s going on this year but there seem to be a lot of blue/indigo-coloured lights about and they are just not festive at all. In fact, they’re completely the opposite for me, they rip away any festive cheer. If you’re going to put up lights, white, red, orange, green, purple, yellow and the [...]
Silence in Songs 7 Dec 2006
Why do artists insist on putting silence in songs? I’m not talking about a few second here or there for dramatic effect, I’m talking about the endless voids some people add to their tunes, sometimes with some inane riff at the end to make it seemingly worthwhile (like those snippets at the end of the [...]
PHPMailer Embedded Attachments 5 Dec 2006
This is partly for me and partly for anyone who is currently hunting high and low for a solution to a problem I was having with PHPMailer and embedded images in HTML emails. The problem was that despite me being confident my code to insert the image was right, it was still appearing as an [...]
Football Fields 2 Dec 2006
I love football, it is, for me, the best sport in the world, both as competitor and spectator, it doesn’t surprise me that it’s the most popular sport on Earth. The Brits invented quite a few sports and games, but with football we hit our pinnacle. It was quite nice to see Hans van de [...]