Every day as I walk to work I go past a telescope shop. When I was younger I was fascinated by astronomy, so this brings back many memories. It’s almost tempting to buy a huge telescope but, of course, one of the few disadvantages of living in London is the complete lack of anything resembling… Continue reading Telescopes
Author: Dave Cross
Conspiracy Theories
Apparently Diana knew ten months in advance that she was going to have an “accidental” car crash. I love conspiracy theories.
Modern Web Design
Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards is essential reading for any web designer.
Clueless Users
(via Casey) Verisign have produced “proof” that their SiteFinder service “improved the Internet”. Their evidence seems to rest on a few clueless users who thought that SiteFinder stopped them getting 404 errors. I’m not convinced that in cases like this we should take the word of someone who obviously doesn’t know what a 404 error… Continue reading Clueless Users
Best of British Bloggers
The Guardian is looking for the Best of British Bloggers (again).
Writing Novels
A few days ago I signed up for NaNoWriMo (that’s National Novel Writing Month in English). The idea is that during the month of November you produce a 50,000 word novel. I’ve been meaning to have a go at writing fiction for a while now. I’m planning to flesh out an idea that I first… Continue reading Writing Novels
New Book
My new book Perl Template Toolkit[1] recently appeared on O’Reilly’s web site. This is one of my favourite parts of the publication process as it proves to the outside world that the book is real. The other parts I really like are when I first get my hands on a copy of the book and… Continue reading New Book
Spammer Scum
I’ve just found another load of spam that had been added as random comments to entries on my blog. I’m sure no-one that reads this really thought that I wanted to promote pre-teen porn sites, but it’s still very annoying. Of course Moveable Type has an IP banning feature and I’ve now banned all of… Continue reading Spammer Scum
Broken English
A couple of things that have made me wince in the last day or so. Yesterday at Farringdon tube station there was a hand-written sign proudly declaring that “Kings Cross station is re-open”. Then this morning on the TV news I heard someone talking about the England vs Turkey football match which is apparently taking… Continue reading Broken English
Intelligent Debate
I love it when I get intelligent comments like this left on the site. It makes it all feel worthwhile.