Still Breathing

I had a chat with my dad today about technology. Whenever I see him we generally chat about technology, at the moment even more so because there is a slim chance I might be doing a website for something he is involved with. Fingers crossed for that. However this particular time we were talking about…

I’m talking about validation. There you are with a lovely site, which works in all popular browsers on a raft of screen resolutions, and even on the dreaded Mac. It looks good, is graphically pixel perfect, and the code is a clean as your grandmothers kitchen sink. So you go to validate. 205 errors. Ouch.…

It’s a terrible thing. To be honest I am more at home writing code, designing database schema, stretching the capabilities of HTML, PHP and ASP. Well, not really stretching, just doing what I’ve not seen done before. However part of my gainful employment involves me putting on my graphic designers hat. And, occasionally, I find…

I know this isn’t traditionally geeky, at least it’s nothing (directly) to do with computers, but I had to say it. Today la inamorata and I went for a walk across the Humber Bridge, which is a huge suspension bridge (one of the biggest in the world I think) over the Humber estuary. We had…

Sorry, as I said: technical difficulties. here are the screenshots again: Grrr, code. It’s out to get me, I tells yer.