Diary: October 2006
This weekend it was the Great British Cheese Festival, right here in Cheltenham, just a 5 minute walk away from my house.
It was awesome. There were hundreds of cheeses, loads of free samples, and I even bought a few. Nat and Simon came up from Oxford, and they left with several large bags full of cheese - very sensible. I was rather miserly and boring, and, thinking of my waist, I just went for a couple of blue cheeses. I wish now that I'd bought more and varied cheeses - there were some really crazy things there, including horseradish cheese ...
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So I've just been to the hospital to see someone about my ongoing nose problem. For those who haven't been following my diary as closely as they should, I've had a partially blocked nose for as long as I can remember, and with it a poor sense of taste and smell, sleep apnoea, and all sorts of joyous things relating to those, such as tiredness, lack of concentration, even weight gain - yes, I reckon I can blame all my problems on my nose ;)
I started seeing doctors about it a couple of years ago, and they got ...
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No updates for a while, so I thought I'd just write a quick one. Drove up to Newcastle for Meri and Elly's wedding last weekend - it was an excellent wedding, and there are many photos on Flickr (although most of the ones of me are of me stuffing my face). I haven't finished my cheese from the cheese festival yet, although I attacked Simon and Nat's cheese last week when I went over to Oxford for their cheese and wine party, which was an excellent cheese and wine party, even though I didn't drink any ...
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Some people have contacted me because they've been getting spam from addresses at radiac.net. To those of you who have been polite, thank you for letting me know, and to those of you coming here to complain, please let me explain.
As far as I know, this has nothing to do with me. This has happened to me before, and also to other domains I run and people I know. A spammer picks a domain, puts random words at the front, and then puts that in the from field. The actual spams are not coming from me or ...
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While I've been practicing semantic markup for years, today was the first time that I've needed to break an ordered list halfway through. I will illustrate with an example:
1. One
Subtitle
2. Two
3. Three
This was easy in the good old days of tables, frames and marquees; just add a start value to the second ol and away you go. However, that attribute was deprecated in HTML 4, and the CSS replacement doesn't work in most browsers. It's now actually impossible to implement a broken ol in HTML 4 Strict.
That sucks.
I wish ...
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