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London PHP Conference
12 January 2007
Read moreIts all sorted and we’re booked onto the London PHP Conference in February. Its a bit of a geeky thing to do as a couple I suppose but I’m really looking forward to it. There are some speakers that I will be positively star-struck to see in the …
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Dating Joomla!
11 January 2007
Read moreWell its early days in our relationship but so far, Joomla! and I are getting along just fine. Since I installed it I’ve had a proper fiddle with most of the bits and pieces (mostly turning things off actually!!) and now its looking much better.
Since I’ll want …
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Wouldn't It Be Cool If ...
11 January 2007
Read moreAs a geek, I sometimes create websites for other people or organisations who don’t have the technical skills to create them themselves. Tonight I’m meeting with the Netball Club Committee (well they are meeting and I am gatecrashing) to discuss whether a website would be useful for them …
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Gadget Update
10 January 2007
Read moreAfter I wrote about the death of a gadget, I decided that I would definitely just go out and buy something which would make music, to use in the car and at the gym, which wouldn’t matter if it died too. So I got one of these logik orbit …
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Rowan Big Wool Mittens
07 January 2007
Read moreI can’t really knit. I must have been able to once; I knitted toy snowmen as christmas presents for my friends when I lived at home. But its something that I can’t just pick up and potter along with like I can crochet. For my birthday I received …
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A Winter's Wrap
07 January 2007
Read moreThought I’d show off my most recent crochet creation as I haven’t been keeping the site up-to-date with stuff lately. I received an invite to a Christmas Ball from a friend in the Army, and accepted. My summer ballgown (I slimmed back into the pink one mum made …
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Civic Life Online
05 January 2007
Read moreIt looks like the government is catching up with the online world. In the last few months I’ve registered as an organ donor, and petitioned for accessible websites.
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Joomla! greetings
04 January 2007
Read moreNext week I’ve been asked to go to the netball club committee meeting and tell them a bit about what a website is and whether I should be making them one. In order to get my brain in gear I’ve been thinking about tools that would be suitable …
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Google Blogsearch
04 January 2007
Read moreThis is a nice little tool that I use a lot, especially when I only want to see stuff posted by real people or posted in a given timescale: blogsearch.google.com.
A search on Zelda got me (via a couple of links), to this zelda name generator. I love …
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My 2006
02 January 2007
Read moreWell, here we are, 2007 and another year has gone. I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions (I do have a problem with winter blues so January is a rubbish time for that type of thing for me), but there is always a touch of nostalgia when Big …
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Office Dress: Bags
30 December 2006
Read moreIn the final in this mini series of office dress, I’ve covered suits, shoes, and now its the turn of bags.
I am a hoarder of all things, not least of handbags. I’m forever buying beautful bags and then finding that actually the one I was already using …
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Hush Puppies Hysteria
30 December 2006
Read moreI warn you now that this article is entirely about shoes.
I love Hush Puppies. I have several pairs of them and they’ve all been fabulous! They’re pretty, practical (ish, the soles weren’t made for steep streets!), and very very comfortable.
In the last couple of years …