May 2004

Or you can see all posts in 2004

1. Weekend Reading
   Since I started using del.icio.us in a semi-serious way I realised that it’s most useful to me as a place to store links that I could a) potentially blog about or b) might need when I’m on a differ...
   Published on 02 May in general
2. How to Care for Your Web Designer
   Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of your very own Web Designer! But now what do you do?
   Published on 06 May in general
3. Markup Validator update
   After five consecutive beta test periods, a new version (v0.6.5) of the Markup Validator was released today. This maintenance version of the popular service introduces sign...
   Published on 07 May in general
4. bloggggggggeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
   Blogger has a new look. Supports co...
   Published on 10 May in general
5. Blogger relaunch commentary
   Focussed on Phil Ringnalda for a change 😉
   Published on 10 May in general
6. women in blogging
   I’ve just subscribed to threetwo female bloggers which now takes my the total number of female blogger to whom I’m subscribed to, uh, threetwo. ...
   Published on 12 May in general
7. The transparency of open source. or something.
   Mozilla 1.7 RC1 now has Support for the CSS3 opacity prop...
   Published on 12 May in general
8. assessing the collective
   I’ve been meaning to finish this post for about a week and a half now, but time constraints mean that I’ve not been able to do so. Nevertheless, for your perusal, a non-insightful look into a BBC r...
   Published on 12 May in general
9. No comments for old rope
   Given: Posts Written: 343 and:
   Published on 13 May in general
10. Sheffield WiFi
    The Showroom (
    Published on 13 May in general
11. Glorious sunshine
    Another rare yet beautifully sunny day in Sheffield. Only slightly...
    Published on 14 May in general
12. css magic
    A nice keyboard, rendered in CSS. Sometimes, you’ve got to think, y’know, just maybe some people have too much time on their h...
    Published on 14 May in general
13. CSS3 Selectors
    There’s a nice little introduction to CSS3 selectors on XML.com which contains this little comment: The Moz...
    Published on 17 May in general
14. XULPlanet returns!
    XULPlanet has returned! and thank god for that, really. In case you don’t know, XULPlanet i...
    Published on 17 May in general
15. Who posted to del.icio.us?
    del.icio.us provides you with a virtual inbox to which you can add any other users’ bookmark lists. You then have access to this inbox via RSS. So, for example, in
    Published on 17 May in general
16. Mono programming in Java
    Ed Dumbill’s Small slices of Mono wonder post mentions IKVM: IKVM is a translator from Java bytecode to CIL bytecode ...
    Published on 17 May in general
17. Live textile comment previews
    Live textile comment previews. Powered by javascript by Stuart Langridge, and
    Published on 18 May in general
18. A day at the zoo
    My girlfriend and I went to London Zoo at the weekend. She with her nice (non-digital) camera, me with my Nokia 6600…so, until she gets her film developed,...
    Published on 19 May in general
19. What is legible text?
    One of the many sites I read linked to findability.org today. The thing is, whilst the people behind it may know a lot about findability, I’ll never...
    Published on 24 May in general
20. Firefox and CSS sidebars
    I’ve just come across the CSS Property Index which is an alphabetical listing of CSS properties. Of course, there are many of t...
    Published on 24 May in general
21. Bugzilla usability
    Is it just me, or does RedHat’s Bugzilla Install put Mozilla’s to shame? Yes it does. Bugzilla’s user interface, particul...
    Published on 24 May in general
22. JTextile 1.1 is amazing
    JTextile 1.1 is out! There have been a lot of changes in this version, and a massive amount of bug fixing (for the record, it doesn’t suffe...
    Published on 24 May in general
23. Transvestites in an atom feed
    Transvestites in an atom feed (from In Case You Though...
    Published on 25 May in general
24. Saucereader 1.4.1
    SauceReader recently went to 1.4.1 and with it comes MS Messenger integration (
    Published on 27 May in general
25. How to make a good ID in Atom
    How to make a good ID in Atom by Mark Pilgrim clears up one of the murkiest aspects of Atom for early adopters – how to gener...
    Published on 30 May in general
26. The Tapestry Framework
    Bottom line is I don’t normally like frameworks. But I like Tapestry. This is what I typically hear from people who use
    Published on 30 May in general