Author Archives: Donncha

Mark finally gets his own blog! Expect good stuff from him, most likely on politics, MacOS X, Unix and of course anything else that takes his fancy.

Q209354 – HOWTO – via Fark

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has trouble reading Zeldman’s site. The fonts look really screwy.

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.