Archive for August, 2004
Driving test
This afternoon I passed my driving test on my first attempt – yay! I went out this evening for my first drive on my own … only caught myself asking the passenger seat if I was ok to go once. I’ve had my own car for quite a while now and I’m used to driving it, but it felt very strange to be on my own.
I won’t be on my own for long of course, the Small Person has perfected her back seat driving skills while I have been practicing and will no doubt have plenty of advice for me once she is in the car as well.
Redesigning all over the place
Drew launches a very pink version of his personal web site, allinthehead.com. I’ve also been bitten by the redesign bug and created a new version of my business web site edgeofmyseat.com, which is slightly less purple than the previous incarnation, and hopefully more flexible in terms of the type of content that I can add to it.
This site needs to be next, not so much a redesign as a move away from Movable Type, but I don’t know when I’ll get the time to do it.
Browse Happy
If you have read some of the recent security scares surrounding Internet Explorer and are at all concerned about continuing to use this browser, then check out Browse Happy, the lastest initiative to come out of the Web Standards Project.
No deep technical discussions here, just some case studies of people who have switched to different browsers, and information about the problems faced by Internet Explorer users, and how switching to a different browser can be simple, free, and save you a lot of problems in the long run.
Geeks at the beach
As reported by Jeremy, Andy and Jon, last weekend was a chance for that rare creature – the UK Web Standards Geek – to meet with others of their kind, and marvellous fun it was too. Everyone seems to have survived their encounter with The Small Person, who was terribly excited to have all those grown-ups to terrorize; and it was really great to actually put some faces to blogs!
TheOpenCD
If you are a Windows user and interested in trying out some Open Source software without needing to scour the web, then you might like to download TheOpenCD, which is a collection of open source and free software that runs on Windows.
