Monthly Archives: November 2002

What’s So Bad About Microsoft? As Simon puts it, this is a “good reference point.” 🙂

New design up now. What d’you think? I was getting very tired of the old design which was my first stab at doing a site design completely in CSS without the use of tables. This is my second, and it’s not quite as daunting now that I have a template to work off.
It wasn’t without it’s own problems. I ran into the IE box problem (IE calculates the space around CSS boxes incorrectly so I had to compensate for that) and I finally managed to get the “Holy Shmoly!” logo to display a bit better in that browser.
The last time I tried to come up with a design for this site I gave up in desperation and went and cleared out the garden and the paths around the house. Thankfully I persevered with it this time!
The next design might make use of graphics but don’t count on it. hehe.

stonefishspine talks about changing themes on his weblog. I think that php switcher script didn’t work because he was using php4 with register_globals set to Off..

Favelets – some good “bookmarklets” here.

28 Days Later Movie Review – I saw this movie the other night. I can’t saw I enjoyed it but it was good. If you liked Resident Evil you’ll like this.

I, Cringely | The Pulpit – read it, Cringely looks at the MS settlement in his usual onconventional way!

Scary Backup Stories – I have had bad experiences with backing up stuff too. The one time you *need* to restore something and the previous night’s backup had failed. Thankfully, Amanda has been fairly reliable since day one.

When good interfaces go crufty – saw it on /. and it’s a bloody good read. I remember arguing with my cousin over the suitability of a Windows PC for our other cousins. I had previously told the new PC owning cousins that with one keypress they could “wreck” their PC (delete command.com from the Windows Explorer, this was win98 time, I exagerated a bit, but I didn’t want to be tech support for them!). They had told my other cousin who of course came the defense of Windows, saying it worked just fine and was very usable, to which I replied they should really probably use a Mac (had the argument happened now, I might even advocate an installation of Red Hat 8.0)
Of course, then we came to our senses, my own family and hers looked sheepishly around the dinner table and we finished our Christmas dinner.