Why didn’t I think of it before? The Joke Database has been here for a while, in fact it predates this blog by a few years. But now I have a page which you can just keep refreshing to read random jokes which will be selected until you’ve read them all – though duplicates are [...]

With more and more people browsing on iPhones, BlackBerrys and so on, I thought it would be useful to work out how WordPress can render blog posts for mobile screens. I’ve been annoyed on my recent Samsung Corby Pro phone at just how hard it is to read the web properly. A lot of fixed [...]

The world of web fonts has traditionally been limited to Times, Arial and Courier (and various variants thereof like Helvetica which of course came first). Other fonts can be used reasonably safely if you’re careful, or not too picky about certain target platforms displaying exactly the same font. CSS has a rule (@font-face) which allows [...]

I took a picture of a bookshop that I pass on my route to the offices my company has recently moved to in La Défense. I liked the fact that it was a weathered, old shop sign. No doubt it hasn’t been open for years, though it may be caught in a time warp and [...]

As a Brit, I always had something of a thing about the American traffic signs we’d see on TV series imported massively to our screens. In England (and elsewhere in Europe) there is a green man and a red man, the green man active and the red man standing still. It’s perhaps more universal and [...]

I spent part of the day looking through some old photographs, taken before I had a digital camera. I picked a few out to scan, and of the first batch that I have uploaded here’s one which I think is nice, even if it is slightly out of focus. Perhaps it’s even part of the [...]

We brought Maya home from the local SPA (French equivalent of the RSPCA, Société Protectrice des Animaux) after a long time trying to decide which cat to adopt. The only criteria we had were for a sterilised female, because our other cat is male – wanted to keep a good yin/yang balance. While we were [...]

Nathan and Liam spent a while dotting paint on their pad from felt pens that paint rather than draw. Mostly they’re good for making big splodges though. Good to catch up with friends and see the kids playing together. 2010 has started quite well for catching up with people. Testing Painting Pens Originally uploaded by [...]