ThePickards
standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist

…following on from a post of Steve Pugh’s where he identifies his Peculiar Aristocratic Title, I thought I’d have a crack at it.
It turns out I am His Noble Excellency Jack the Assiduous of Great Leering.
Beat that if you can! It sounds like I’m going to be played by Sid James in a film called […]

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Okay, so it’s two days since I unwrapped my Nintendo Wii. That’s ample time to have formed some opinions on it. Let’s see. What are they, then:

It’s great
Get one

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As I believe I mentioned before, today I’m allowing someone else to say a few words on my behalf. I’d like to wish a warm welcome to ThePickards for Stephen Lang, and his Christmas message.
If you’d like to see the others, Dan Champion is guesting on Stephen’s site, I’m guesting on Mike Cherim’s site, and […]

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You may have gathered from other posts in my blog that I’m a firm believer in equality. I’m a campaigner for web accessibility, and indeed invest some of my spare time in helping to educate people about making websites accessible to people with disabilities — through my work as a grader and infrequent article contributor […]

Read: Maim That Pedestrian: A New Disability Action Game »

In the UK and presumably wherever else in the world people are interested, the Queen traditionally broadcasts a Christmas message to the Commonwealth at 3pm (UK time) on Christmas day.
Since 1993, the British Television station Channel 4 have broadcast an “alternative Christmas message”, usually controversial, and frequently featuring a celebrity. The Channel 4 Alternative Christmas […]

Read: The BlogSwap: An Explanation »

It’s apparently ten years ago that the great scientist, and gifted writer Carl Sagan died (give or take a few days). I don’t know a great deal about him, but I do know that he had a great mind and could craft wonderful, compelling and powerful arguments in such a way as to make them […]

Read: Carl Sagan And The Invisible Fire-Breathing Dragon In My Garage »

apologies to anyone who has already seen this, I imagine it’s been doing the rounds…

Read: The Authorised Christmas Message »

Disclaimer: the following joke is of a sexual nature. For those of you young, sweet and innocent, and wanting to remain that way, go read something else. If you’re already corrupt, read on…

Read: Friday Joke NSFW: Hot or Cold? »

As any fule kno, if you have a blog, you’re going to get comment spam.
This basically three main flavours: spam comments which contains hyperlinks to porn sites, spam comments which contain hyperlinks to gambling sites, and spam comments which contain hyperlinks to pharmaceutical sites.
Of course, every now and again, you’ll get some non-hyperlinked spam where […]

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I’ve been unwell.

Read: Bleuuurgh and Lemuel Gulliver »