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Lorem Ipsum generator. When you need a chunk of text to fill out a web page, but not distract you from the design, this site generates the Lorem Ipsum text for you. Web page backgrounds by Squid Fingers. Lovely designs that remind me of William Morris, free for use if

Censorship

Interesting thread on the WordPress support forums about censorship and ethics. After reading it, I added this to my About the blog page: You are free to comment on my blog, but once you do, all comments belong to me and I will censor, edit, or delete at will. Play

Doctor, is that you?

Doctor Who, fashion icon. My first look at the new Doctor He's been a dandy, an Edwardian cricketer and most famously wore a long scarf. Doctor Who's togs change as he regenerates. So what are the fashion tips from everyone's favourite Time Lord? Flamboyant.

Life and knitting

On Monday I discovered the cure for the common cold, it works almost instantly. Struck oil in the back yard on Tuesday and invented a car engine that runs on cold fusion lunchtime today. My cat Quantum got nominated for the Nobel Prize for Economics and the novel I wrote

Factoids

Remind me never to drink a whole can of Redbull. Never again. Jittery and fast-forward-speed all morning, much to the amusement of my officemates, dull and nauseaus all afternoon. Next time I'm sticking with grapefruit juice. Still working on the back of the summer purse. Planned out the

Insecure passwords rampant

Computer passwords 'up for grabs'. Half of IT managers employed by large-sized companies believe it would be relatively easy to gain the core passwords for their computer systems. That is the warning of a survey by IT security firm Cyber-Ark. It said that 10% of firms never changed

Good news, bad news

It's been a good news, bad news day. On the good side, I got to eat really good Greek food, my car was fixed for way less than I'd been expecting, my boss and the co-owner of the company I work for let me go home

Doctor Who Scarf

The fourth incarnation of Doctor Who was played by Tom Baker, broadcast from 1974 to 1981. The Fourth Doctor's costume was inspired by a painting of French artist Toulouse-Lautrec. The now legendary scarf was a happy accident - the result of a freelance knitter not realising she didn&

CDP Progress III

Nothing like a quiet evening of web design. One more section of six files, and the English side of the CDP redesign is done. All the support files are done, the feedback form works, and cross-browser compatibility is sorted. Six more files and I can take the English side live.

CDP Progress II

Got my space on the test server sorted out, the Gospelcom support crew rocks. Ended up using a hand-coded CSS stylesheet written by Hubby to get around the IE/Firefox problems. Five sections are now ready to go live. Three still to do (including one total doozy, I don'

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