The server and local PC backups are automated, of course.  But deleting them isn't, which causes me Issues ( Read more... )

The power socket for my laptop has really truly finally died this time, and after a new power cord, a new keyboard, sugru to hold the disintegrating case and power socket together, I think the dratted thing is finally on the way out this time.   Who knew a Vaio would be so fragile?  Although I think it's lasted me since 2011, so I suppose that by ( Read more... )

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Is http://closercornwall.com.  We launched it today in Looe.  There was cake!    The idea of it is to encourage people to come to Cornwall, but instead of trogging all the way down to Penzance or Land's End to the Distant Western Lands of Glamour,  but stop along the south coast or on the ( Read more... )

( Bah )

I forgot to take my camera when I took the dogs out this afternoon ( Read more... )

That infuriating moment when you realise that, once again, the reason it didn't work is not because you don't understand and are clueless and should give up and go away,  but merely because you made a really stupid syntax error, which you did not spot because you assumed the problem was you were Doing Everything Wrong ( Read more... )

That feeling on the 21st iteration of 'can you make it look like this?' design when the layout works its way around to *exactly how the layout would look and work by default if no work had been done on it at all*  .

It's amazing how great a wheel can look when you've just spent a solid week checking out all the alternatives and reinventing it. 

Does anyone have any opinions on great museum websites that you have run across recently?  If so, what struck you as good about 'em?  I'm on the hunt for ideas.

I do like the Ashmolean one - even if I'm not 100% convinced by the slideshow, the way they get a lot of good points for the museum onto the homepage without it looking cluttered is very

Photo workshop went quite well, I think.  My skills may be rudimentary but they were still comfortably better than anyone present, which I always think is the key factor for skills training.  So I may not have taught them All the Things, but they all learned Things they didn't know, at any rate ( Read more... )