random tuesday or do we have to put you in a home

random things:
1. when my mother rang up yesterday she said in her excited voice, “how’s my little girl?”. She was talking about the cat.
2. i managed to get myself banned from Google. I don’t even know how I managed that.
3. Don’t try and make sense when your brain is unravelling. Just go with it.
4.The montly […]

more links for reference

1. Why’s poignant guide to ruby
2. testing a PHP script 
3. form processing with PHP 
Security stuff to remember when using PHP for forms
4. form hijacking 
5. email header injections
Accessibility & basics
6. accessibile forms 
7. forms for beginners 
8. dos and dont’s of accessible forms 
9. accessible forms again
testing on different versions of IE
10. test & test again in bloody IE 

if stupid people make bad parents then i am in trouble

Over the long weekend we saw a couple of different friends who have kids. I had the opportunity to reflect on whether I would be a good parent or not.
1. While cooking the BBQ for dinner C asked me to explain how the gas gets from the bottle to the hotplate. I have no idea. […]

today is the day i do some stuff

There are two types of work you do with a small business, as far as I can tell.
1. You work in the business, making money and paying bills and doing stuff.
2. You work on the business, planning marketing and products, and other bits and pieces.
So far there has been a bit of option 1, but […]

all over the place

I started my contract with the TV station yesterday. I am now officially their archivist, which is great and a little daunting because I am not a trained archivist. But I did maintain a tape library in Hobart for a year and a half. About 1,000 video tapes of stuff, which had to be accounted […]

and there it was, my whole life in a bunch of line illustrations …


how bloody fantastic is david shrigley

Standing In The Way Of Control

Nothing significant is happening. The heat is knocking Eilis over. She has taken residence on the couch and fair enough.
Yesterday I was playing post-70s feminist alternative rock quite loudly and then the power went off and for a moment I thought the two were related.
Today I went and had a meeting with the community TV […]

Barinas are a girls’ car

There are “girls’ cars” and “boys’ cars”. Girls cars are not necessarily pink, but usually do have the adjective “zippy” applied to them.
I found this girls’ car website. It’s kind of a patronising concept, but there is possibly some useful information in there for when next buying a car. If I can get past the […]

PHP the sequel - PHP w. AJAX

1. A simple image viewer
2. Member management system 
The glittery phones look all glittery in the afternoon sun.