I’m being totally lazy in not creating a new theme for this year. I’ve just dragged last years theme out of the folder. In fact it was a one word change in one file! Happy Halloween.
Old Halloween Theme
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Monthly Archives: October 2003
Go Tim!
World Wide Web Consortium Presents US Patent Office with Evidence Invalidating Eolas Patent
bq. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML and the web, today presented the U.S. Patent Office with prior art establishing that the Eolas patent is invalid and should be re-examined.
Hat tip: Jeffrey Zeldman.
Go Me!
Wow, it is now six months! since I last smoked a cigarette. I feel quite pleased with myself about that. Of course, Jan has not smoked for a month or so more.
Oops
Oh no! It seems emails to (one of) my zed1.com account(s) have been bouncing because I had exceeded my quota. I didn’t even know I had a quota! (at least one which wasn’t included in my hosting quota) but I do. It is 50MB and yes, it was full. I have managed to delete all the virus/worm generated emails with binary payloads and released over 40MB of space. Ouch! that’s a lot of mail!
So if anyone has sent me email to my personal zed1.com account in the last 24 48 hours you may want to send it again.
Old Stories Never Die
Wow, looking in my sidebar I noticed that my most popular story (as measured by number of comments) is exactly one year old today.. And people are still commenting on it.
Sponsorship
This struck me as smirkingly amusing…
(click for larger version).
A List Apart and Sexy Sliding Doors
I’m a little slow with the news, but version 3.0 of A List Apart has just gone live. It features a completely new look, standards compliant of course, a selection of XML feeds and a fabulous article on a sexy new UI technique: Douglas Bowman’s Sliding Doors Method.
Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that squash and stretch while delivering meaningful XHTML text. Have your cake and eat it, too!
Sweet!
Long Time No Blog
It’s been a while, but I am still here! I’ve been pretty busy at work and I’ve been spending less time on the PC at home. Plus I’ve just not been in the mood 
In brief, I’ve still got a long list of books I want to mention. I’m still tweaking my WordPress installation here. Work has been busy but not too stressful. I’m still cycling 50 miles a week, but the old waistline is not reducing 
Things are moving again on the WordPress development front, we have a new member on board (that makes three Mikes and a Michel), and the buzz at the moment is comment spamming and it’s prevention.
I’m sure there are a million other things I could write about but it’s late now, so I’m off to bed.
Later days…
