Wightcable again!!

Since early Tuesday morning I have been without a proper net connection. Somebody, somewhere has changed a setting preventing Wightcable customers accessing websites hosted by Fasthosts. Unfortunately as just about all my sites are hosted there, I have been rather restricted in what I have been able to do. Telephone calls to tech support have [...]

Pretty eh?

The picture below shows this website graphically. What do the colors mean? blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV tag violet: for images (the IMG tag) yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags) orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and [...]

You have to love this…

Multiple desktops…..

Comments back on from today

Just installed Akismet, apparently it will stop all spam of any kind! we’ll see…….

Comment Spam

It seems the comment spammers have caught up with me again! They managed to add comments to many of the old posts here – now all comments have been deleted. Unfortunately I have been forced to remove the ability to post comments of any kind to the blog for the time being. I will sometime [...]

Performancing with WordPress and Firefox

This is a test post to my blog using the Performancing add-in for Firefox. A little preview picture of the interface should show up below this line: It all seemed very easy to configure and appears to make posting here much easier. We’ll see how it goes……

Flickr Updates

Quite a few changes at Flickr recently including a tidy little uploader .

Found a house

After a few dead ends we seem to have found the house we would like here on the Island. It’s in a small village called Winford (East Wight) and is well situated for both a quiet life and easy access to everywhere we need. It’s all very early days yet, but we have had an [...]

He must be related surely?

I came across this “Last Will and Testament” while searching on Google. I would love to have been there at the reading….. Unfortunately though, I can’t link my bit of the Curd tree to his……. yet!

Flat for Sale – Cowes

We have now seen a house on the IOW that we would like and whilst we have had a lot of interest in the flat, we have not yet sold it. Google seems to be my friend at the moment so another mention here won’t hurt. Full details, description, photos, maps and plans of the [...]