Still looking at why the CSS breaks in Windows IE. It’s bizarre, but because I’m going to revise the overall layout of the site anyway I’m not going to beat my head against the wall over it. Now I’ve got the “printer-friendly” template working I’ll be moving to a new layout (maybe three columns) and…

Contemplating changes to blog style to fix the Windows IE image/css problem. In looking around I came across css Zen Garden. Just spent some idle minutes clicking on the styles here. I’m seriously impressed.

Okay. Now in the last couple of posts I’ve uploaded and embedded JPEG images in the blog postings. On my iBook in Firefox and Safari they show up. On the Windows XP Acer they show up in Firefox. But in Internet Explorer on the Acer there are just blank spaces where the images are meant…

As the start of the undergraduate academic year looms I’ve been playing around with Moodle – an open-source learning management system (LMS) that will support students I’m tutoring this semester (as well as for other courses). I’ve been pleasantly surprised with its features and hopefully it will allow me (and others) to bring together learning…

Is it wrong to want to write an imprecatory psalm about spammers? Or to carry out the wishes of said psalm upon the physical bodies of said offenders.

One of the things that annoys me about blogging systems is that they tend to be printer unfriendly. By the time a header/title and side bars have been added typical of most templates the content becomes squashed into a narrow column. Good for reading online – bad for printing out. So you end up with…

Finally bit the bullet and bought Ecto so I could write posts off line and edit them more easily than in a web browser. I found that Safari wouldn’t refresh edits properly due to the upstream cache and Firefox (under Mac OS X 10.2) didn’t render the edit boxes properly. I would have preferred to…

BBC NEWS | Education | Academics give lessons on blogs Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper. Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom. Via: maggi…

If you’re running OSX 10.3.5 and you are looking for a text editor that has more features than TextEdit then have a look at TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software. They’ve just released version 2 as freeware so try it and see. Seeing as I’m still back in Bronze Age OSX 10.2 I use their old…

Well, maybe not. However this article shows how to use a local style sheet to override the one on a web site. Skinning Gmail with a Custom Stylesheet No longer will I have to suffer bizarre colour combinations when accessing things like library catalogues – now I can override it so I get readable black…