Jem – UK blogger

I’ve not long come out of a meeting with a client. Sat down to make a phone call, crossed my legs.. only to realise that the price sticker is still on the bottom of my new(ish) shoes. Oh dear.

It’s Firefox 3 Download Day today. It is effectively marketing hype and a viral campaign, although the less cynical among you may call it Mozilla’s attempt to create a world record. The idea being that after 3 years of development, the “new and improved” (oxymoron?) browser will not only revolutionise the browser market but will… read full entry »

In Part Three of the Beginner’s Guide to PHP we learnt about the if construct (“statement”), and using it to check the value of some input. In this guide we’ll learn about two more constructs: foreach() and array() foreach Construct foreach — a type of loop, but we’ll cover that more in the future —… read full entry »

I’ve had a heavy workload for the past few weeks which means work has been quite hectic — and the reason why I’ve not been online in the evenings of late — but today was particularly ridiculous. Within 10 minutes of getting into work, I had a dead system on my hands. The Dell we… read full entry »

I learnt a long time ago that if you have an opinion, any opinion, there’s always going to be someone who disagrees. If you have a strong opinion, there will be even more people who disagree. The louder you voice it, the more people will find reason to criticise it. Of course, this is not… read full entry »

As I’m being pestered left, right and centre for updates on my furry buggers, I figured I should probably blog about them. Plus I know some of you only come here for the pictures :P Fudge settled in rather rapidly, which surprised me given the situation we rescued him from. I expected him to be… read full entry »

I’ve been a fan of word games since I was a kid. I remember going to my Nan’s and hiding away in her back room with her Take a Break mag and a pencil so that I could do the puzzles and then rub the answers out so I wouldn’t spoil it for her. So… read full entry »

I’m sat here digging through my old folders in a desperate attempt to find a half-finished layout or two that would be decent enough to give my website a fresh look without appearing obviously dated, and what should I happen across but a bunch of old layouts from my various sites. Some of these date… read full entry »

You know how I mentioned that I was being spammed by link-droppers on dofollow posts? Well, this was despite running Akismet. It turns out, that on top of *not* picking up the blatant link-dropping, it was falsely listing some of my long-time readers as spam! Fook knows how long that’s been going on, I never… read full entry »

If you’re based in the States and in a position to offer a cat or two a home (either temporary fostering or permanent adoption) please read through this post. If you’re based in Coweta County, Georgia, there are 42 furry babies on the urgent list at Coweta County Animal Control. That means that if they… read full entry »