I was a little surprised, and more than a little interested to haphazardly discover through pretty much random browsing that the CSS working group have a blog. I had a bit of a read through it, and discovered some really neat ideas in the pipeline, including contour-based floats. Now that’s neat. Really neat. The CSS [...]

…but I want nothing that SOCITM’s got, we’re going over old ground (na na na na) Okay, apologies to both The Jam and SOCITM there, but those crazy guys and gals over at Public Sector Forums have come up with another jolly good wheeze. In this case, because they are concerned that SOCITM’s Better Connected [...]

If you visit the W3C‘s International page, you’ll come across the term ‘Internationalisation’, which is basically about making it… …possible to use Web technologies with different languages, scripts, and cultures.W3C However, because the term ‘internationalisation’ is a long word, many developers, designers, bloggers and suchlike can’t be bothered to write it out in full each [...]

Last Wednesday afternoon, at about 4pm, I heard from a personal source that there had been a serious bus crash outside English Martyrs school in Hartlepool; that children who had been waiting outside the school had been hit by a bus and sent flying and that some of them were still stuck under the bus. [...]

When I posted the other week about not really knowing what to talk about, someone suggested that I update you all with what’s been happening on the Wii lately. Well, lately, nothing. I nearly bought a new game yesterday, but I didn’t. I’m absolutely desperate to get a new game.

I’m not a natural cynic, it may surprise you to learn. I tend to see the good side of people; I tend to assume that the people I deal with are honest, fair and decent people. But equally I’m cautious. I’m aware that many people aren’t honest, and therefore I’m not likely to assume that [...]

It has emerged, apparently, that London is subsiding by 1-2mm per year (along with the land around the Thames estuary). Coupled with water levels risiing about 1mm per year, this means that London is moving closer towards sea level. Obviously, in the event that global warming means more of the polar ice melts, this will [...]

It appears that Roger Johansson is taking a break from standards and accessibility to spend a little bit of time getting used to being a Daddy. Instead, he’s getting personal and sharing with us some of his top 10 lists. As usual, if you like this sort of thing, read on…

As some of you know, I’m a moderator for AccessifyForum. Basically what this entails is trying to delete spam posts from the forum, and attempting to prevent the more heated debates from turning into blazing arguments and personal attacks. I’m probably moderately successful on both counts. Except today, I noticed a rather odd piece of [...]

The names that are used by people to describe one another are very powerful things. Compare: Abdul Hassan, seeking refuge from torture and persecution Abdul Hassan, the bogus asylum seeker sponging off the taxpayer …to see what I mean. Now I don’t know an Abdul Hassan, and I’m not trying to make a point about [...]