It was one of those times you hear about on the news, but you never really think it’ll happen to you. Our daughter, who is 13 missed the school bus this morning and had to catch the regular bus from our village to her school in the next village along, a journey of about 2.5 …
A whole buch of images created to be used as headers in the kubrick theme. Or you could use an image from Flickr as a kubrick header by using kubrickr Or you could modify the header to load a random images of your choosing by :- First add < ?php function header_graphic() { echo "/images/"; …
I like Flash, I like what can be achieved in Flash by those who know what they are doing, I’ve tinkered with a few things in Flash but never really had the time to get to grips with it. I tried to get a Flash based image gallery to work but eventually gave up. Now …
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with a few versions of Linux. So far I’ve tried SuSE, Novell SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve been very impressed with all of them and I’m still using Ubuntu. Some of them are easier to set up than others and some, like Ubuntu had no …
I cycle to work most days and the road just outside my work has a very steep long bend with no reduced speed limit. Many cars don’t make it…… Due either to drivers not knowing the road and being taken by surprise or simply thinking they can make it at higher speed because it’s late …
Spent a week on the Isle of Skye and as always the island gave us everything from beautiful stunning landscapes in glorious sunshine to non stop torrential rain and mist as thick as soup. We were based on the Ullinish peninsula with fantastic views of MacLeod’s tables across Loch Bracadale. We were able to explore …
We’re off on holiday to the Isle of Skye on Saturday. We decided to go in our old beat up Peugeot 405, although it is getting a bit ‘ify’ these days. It developed a leek in the cooling system the other day, but I think I managed to fix it (I hope). We discussed hiring …
Firefox 1.0.6 stability update released, but this time they recommend uninstalling previous versions of Firefox first. 1. Read the Firefox 1.0.6 Release Notes 2. Download the Firefox 1.0.6 3. Close all windows. 4. Uninstall previous versions of Firefox 1.0.x. Uninstalling previous versions doesn’t erase your Firefox profile. 5. Run the Firefox 1.0.6 setup executable. 6. …
The default them for WP 1.5 is excellent, but I wanted a few things that were not standard. First thing I changed was making the sidebar available on all pages, I know there is now a default_allsidebar theme, but I made the alterations before this was out. I won’t go into detail but in many …
Looks like George Bush might be willing to talk seriously about getting rid of agricultural subsidies, in the EU and the US. No More Beating About the Bush….