I’m currently having fun with WordPress, which is a truly fantastic piece of blogging software. Once I’ve got to grips with the nuts and bolts (and there are many of them) I’ll be relaunching this blog on it, with lots of shiny new things.
I have the TV on in the background, and have just learned […]

I have done almost nothing for the past 5 days. Having finally got through July I have a few weeks of relative peace and quiet (apart from an audition in Lucerne and a concert in Worcester Cathedral) before it all kicks off again in September.
I’ve been turning my attention once again to web design and […]

Having spent most of the day trying to get a niggly little JavaScript to work for my OU coursework, I must here give thanks to the truly wonderful Mozilla Firefox, without which I would now be a gibbering wreck.
For the un-initiated among you, Firefox is an Internet browser, like Internet Explorer, but better, for so […]

I’m returning to London tomorrow, having not spotted the killer whales again.
Bizarrely, there’s still a 30 minute check-in at the airport (this is Kirkwall airport, where you only have to walk 30 yards from the check-in desk to the plane), so I’m going to be up early.
It’s been absolutely brilliant, if any of you have […]

I first tried to teach myself HTML during a comfortable but dull Christmas holiday at my parents’ house about 6 years ago. I was captivated by the underlying simplicity of it all, but painfully aware my skills were limited compared to the burgeoning array of clever design that was appearing on the Web in those […]