Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

To Ely for Fforde

13/03/10

Having finished listening to Jane Eyre¹ I realised that I'd got nowhere with Stephen Baxter's Flood which was my "currently reading" fiction book. It's hard to say why but it didn't really grab me. ... read more ...

Wrestling with Forms

12/03/10

After my last posting about fun with JavaScript here's a snippet to amuse you about HTML forms. If you've ever coded a very basic form like a search box with one text input field you'll know that you don't need a submit button... read more ...

Wrestling with JavaScript

10/03/10

I've spent some time today struggling to get some JavaScript code working across multiple browsers. When it comes to JavaScript I really am a hacker in the old sense of the word: self taught and knowing just enough to get by. read more ...

Red Bottom

06/03/10

Hugo and I painted Matchmaker's hull with red anti-fouling today and replaced the sacrificial anodes ready for this season's sailing. A good day and an excellent fry up for lunch at the marina's greasy spoon but I could have done without the wind chill.

Google and Privacy

03/03/10

Sarah just re-tweeted this rather excellent story in The Onion about Google which I think deserves wider circulation. And while I'm at it here's two other items courtesy of Kirk. read more ...

Sensitivity

03/03/10

I'm a long time subscriber to Private Eye and there's a much longer tradition of them including material, especially cartoons, which offends readers enough that they write in and (traditionally) cancel their subscription, although these days the latter is largely done satirically. read more ...

A Spring Walk

01/03/10

As I said in my last posting spring is here and it's glorious. We walked from Bottisham across Quy Fen to Lode Mill and back this afternoon. The sun was shining and there was very little wind. I couldn't stop grinning. read more ...

Spring Is Here

01/03/10

... and it's glorious. We walked from Bottisham across Quy Fen to Lode Mill and back this afternoon. The sun was shining and there was very little wind. I couldn't stop grinning. This photo was taken while sitting on a bench at the Fen.

Bad Science

28/02/10

I'm an enormous fan of Bed Goldacre and his Bad Science activities: the blog, the column in The Guardian and of course the book so by way of a tribute here's two things that annoyed me in this month's CSMA Club Magazine¹. read more ...

Mild

25/02/10

The British Board of Film Classification have the dubious pleasure of rating every movie we get to watch and as well as giving it a classification code which determines who is allowed to watch it they also give a brief note of any issues. read more ...

Current status: (via twitter)
Paul has finally worked out why a lot of Twitter background images seem poor: they're assuming I've got my browser window maximised. D'oh!

I am currently reading:

The Fourth Bear
by Jasper Fforde
Surviving in Stroke City
Gerry Anderson

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Word of the Day:

irrelephant