MadTV Blog
Life, motorbikes, and random thoughts
260 posts
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Good idea
I haven't blogged in a while, so I thought it was about time. My Dad's online journal is getting more hits than any other single page on this site now, which is pretty amazing for a new blog. As I suspected when I read…
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To do
I think the next stage for this site (apart from a few technical chages) may well be exposing an RSS feed. Now that Firefox supports RSS I love the stuff. I couldn't really see the point before. Now however, every…
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Goneaway
Oh by the way, my fathers journal of his travels to America are available here . He's well worth a read as he writes very well and is often very entertaining.
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Google's rules
Oooh another Google first! They've just released a desktop search tool. First Gmail (which I've learnt to love), then the little system tray app that tells you when you have Gmail, then Froogle launches in the UK and…
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ABC?
The web's full of talk this week about web standards and mark-up validation. I think this was triggered by ABC news switching to a CSS layout, which obviously everyone applauds but which doesn't validate. The fact that…
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Distressed?
Is it just me or are all the designers sites suddenly doing the distressed look? The latest is Fo0 over at forgetfoo.com. Don't get me wrong I love the look, it's just that I've suddenly noticed that everyone's doing…
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Vindictiveness
Anil Dash is talking about "blogger-mobs" at the moment and how there is a sense of vindictiveness in the blog-sphere and the internet as a whole and it's made me think. Yes, there is a nasty intolerant culture growing…
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Triple monitors
Wo0t! I have a triple monitor set-up at work now! Ooh the luxury. VS.NET in one window, Enterprise Manager in the next and whatever else I'm working on (Dreamweaver etc) in the third. If you haven't tried this way of…
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And the beat goes on
I've replaced some of the CSS styles that I foolishly deleted, so the gallery and CV are almost back to their old selves, minus a few little bugs and quibbles. I've also thrown up a couple of new header images, hit…
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Jazz
When I rule the world all the jazz musicians will be thrown in a huge snake pit with a big sign above it that says "Learn the tune".
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Grrr
My word that's annoying! ASP.NET interprets Firefox as an old browser and supplies it tables on the fly instead of my styled div's ... grrr .... That's always been a Microsoft problem: Applications that try to think for…
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Midnight ride
Here's what to do if you're at a lose end on a Friday night and you have a motorbike. Ride miles out into the countryside under the moonlight. Then just roll on and on, the engine purring, headlights picking out the…
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Split the blog?
Well, my Dad's left the country. Many of my friends will know that he's gone to America; I guess less of my online friends will know. This brings me to an interesting dilemma with my blog. Should I continue mixing…
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Firefox!
The web has been on fire recently with talk of IE's obsolesence and Firefox's preview release. I firmly believe that web standards are the way forward for this weird wonderful web and that propreitary technologies…
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Oops
Oh and I should point out that I am aware that the styles for my CV and gallery have gone. Yes ... I err deleted them by mistake (and both back-ups). *blushes* They will be back up when I rewrite the CSS rules. But hey…
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File Tree
Anyone fancy a tutorial on creating a file tree structure with ASP.NET?
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AA rip off
Man, what a shite journey home I had last night. It cost me £73 to go the twenty miles to Coventry. I finish work, climb on my bike, she starts fine but then looses all grunt by the time I reach the main road. After…
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Playing away
This is the first time I've blogged a comment away from my home computer. It is very handy having a web interface for adding blog comments. New functionality that I shall be adding is the ability for visitors to my site…
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Damn drive belt
What a day! My bike broke down 300 yards after leaving the house for work. So I wheel it back up the hill to my house (nearly having a cardiac arrest on the way ... damn, that thing's heavy) and try and get the engine…
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Any requests
And there it is! MadBlog V-0.1 is up and running. All the old Swandale time-tracker stuff that was running on my server is down (so there's no point in clicking that link in projects anymore) and the .NET applications…