Hiding away on BBC4 earlier this year was one of the funniest programmes about television ever made, Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe. His caustic and sarcastic look at modern television and it’s audience is a breath of fresh against the season-long X-Factor/Strictly Come Dancing/Big Brother monstrosities we have on our screens. Here … Continue reading →

del.icio.us is one of a new generation of community sites that handle your links, posts and articles in interesting ways. Del.icio.us prides itself on being the most popular social bookmarking website allowing users to keep their favourite links or bookmarks online, rather than on their PCs. Nothing too remarkable about … Continue reading →

17 days to go till the launch of the Nintendo Wii. Here’s a BBC article on the new console. Why not smash it up in front of all the other people queing for their new console, as can be seen at The Register. They did the same last week with … Continue reading →

During the redesign of this site I had to take into consideration the current hot topic of web standards, accessibilty. This is where you design your site with respect to people with disabilities, such as blindness, so that it can be viewed in as many different kind of browers and … Continue reading →

Today I checked out the Nintendo Wii Roadshow happening down at Churchill Square shopping centre. The installation looked great consisting of four demonstration sections each running different games. I’ve laid down a deposit for one of these the moment the release date was announced, being a new Nintendo convert, but … Continue reading →

will be happening to this website over the next couple of days. There may be times it’s down and other times you might get some gibberish on the screen. Thats because I’m doing a live implementation of my new web design. Now you should test your sites on your PC … Continue reading →

The time has finally come for a total redesign of this site. As well as being visually unremarkable the code is a horror to look through. So over the next few weeks I’ll be taking a detailed look at the descisions and processes used to bring this site up to … Continue reading →

I’ve not read a book in over a month as I’ve been playing this Nintendo DS game for an hour at bedtime instead. As it’s cartridge based there’s no load-up times so you can dive in straight away for a game of chess, backgammon or one of the 20 or … Continue reading →