Two new websites
13 April 2008
Back in the self-promotional mood, I’ve got a couple of new websites to release to an unsuspecting public today. For a long time, I’ve been thinking that the concept used for MotorwayServices.Info could well be suitable for some other kind of review/rate site, and it ocurred to me that railway stations might be a suitable subject. So, over the past few weeks, I’ve been tinkering away at RailwayStations.Info - not exactly an original name (all the best domains were already taken!), but it does what it says on the tin and I’m now reasonably happy with how it’s working. It’s not quite the same as the MSI website, mainly because there are already plenty of other websites that provide full listings of railway stations, so this time I’ve decided to make the primary focus something that is secondary on MSI - the photos. The aim is to get at least one photograph of every railway station in Britain - that may seem a bit of an anoraky kind of concept, but I have a feeling there are enough people out there for it to work. Have a look if you want - it’s at http://www.railwaystations.info.
On a totally different note, I was looking at the Prime Minister’s E-Petitions website the other day and having a laugh at some of those which totally failed to get any support whatsoever. I decided that some of these were too good - in the sense of being so bad that they’re good - to let them just get buried in the depths of the official site, so I’ve created A Minority of One as a place to display them and allow people to comment on them. Unlike RailwayStations.Info, this was just thrown together in an afternoon using Wordpress as a CMS - the only custom code is a short script to add new petitions to the site. My favourite so far, in terms of demonstrating no clue at all, is a petition to ban peer to peer technology.
Railway Stations
A Minority of One
Brief website update
11 March 2008
It’s been ages since I last blogged anything, so this is merely a self-serving post to remind the world that I’m still alive and point out that I’ve updated a couple of my websites.
To begin with, now that I no longer have any need for a website advertising freelance work, I’ve redesigned www.good-stuff.co.uk to be more of a personal site of various things that I want to experiment with. The latest addition is a sunrise/sunset calendar that will tell you what time the sun rises and sets at any location defined either by a UK postcode, a UK placename or by clicking on an interactive map of the world.
Also, having finally got round to getting the x.tc domain working again (it has fallen into disrepair after all those of us who originally used it had left PSINet and most of the DNS got deleted), I’ve also retrieved a lot of stuff from archive.org and reinstated the pointless waffle at mark.x.tc.
The last website of the day
9 January 2008
Today is the last time that I do the website of the day slot on Mike Rimmer’s evening show on Cross Rhythms Radio. I start a new job next week, and this is the last time this week that the show goes out live.
So, farewell to all my fans (well, both of you). I hope you’ve enjoyed the sites I’ve managed to come up with over the years. You can keep on pestering Mike for something to replace my contribution - it’s not going to be easy :-)
Farewell Netscape
29 December 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm
So. Farewell then
Netscape
Browser extraordinaire
Once you were the
Dog’s bollocks
But now
Just a load
Of bollocks
So. At last the beast fell
And the unbelievers
Had seen it coming
All along.
(apologies to EJ Thribb)
IQ in negative figures
11 November 2007
I really don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this news story. Apparently, it’s already done the rounds of the net and I’m picking up on it a bit late, but this quote from someone who has difficulty with basic numeracy is just too good to go unremarked:
I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.
The full story is at ‘Cool Cash’ card confusion.
Friday Fun
10 October 2007
I’ve decided to make a start with resurrecting the Friday Fun website. I’ve given it a very simple makeover, and added a new feature - a “How British Are You?” quiz. More will follow when I get sufficient supply of circular tuits.
More linking nonsense
29 September 2007
I’ve found another bunch of idiots who seem to think that linking to their pages on anything other than their terms is something they have control over.
I wonder if they were as useless for all of their clients as they were for this one.
More kitten photos (sorry if this is getting boring)
6 August 2007
The kittens started to show signs of wanting to escape from their box, so we opened the side to let them have the freedom of the living room.
They now seem to have found a new home, on the bookshelf! Typically, they’re either fast asleep or haring around the room at severe risk of getting trodden on.
More kitten photos
1 August 2007
In a blatant attempt to generate traffic to my blog, I’ve added some more kitten photos to the gallery.
Stuff for sale!
27 July 2007
I’m selling some stuff on eBay at the moment. Currently on offer is a box of ex-BBC open reel tapes, and a box of audio cartridges. Go on, take a look - you know you want to!
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