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Monthly Archives: January 2002

The small person discovers the web

Someone who isn’t five yet is pinching all the bandwidth in this flat. The small person has discovered the web and she likes it! I’ve shown adults how to use a web browser and it took more time than explaining it to the small person, who cannot read yet! However, she knows what the back [...]

email

HTML is a wonderful thing … on websites … it is NOT so wonderful when it arrives in my inbox by way of html emails. I don’t want your pretty pictures, bizarre fonts or your tasteful pink backgrounds. I certainly don’t want JavaScript and things loading from other servers, I would like to be able [...]

spam spam spam spam

The world’s gone spam bonkers! Zeldman has collected a marvellous array of ways to beat the spambots, and my other half has coded a way to redirect known bots with ASP

Happy New Year!

It’s 2:18a.m. on the 1st of January 2002 here in the U.K. I’ve spent the evening here at home, with my daughter and Drew, playing with computers and chatting with friends online… I don’t know what happened to the Rachel who used to stay out for several nights at a time, I think she got [...]