Jem's field notes

…what the point of — or inspiration for — this layout is/was, but it seemed silly and fun and so I thought “sod it”. Don’t ask me, I was just procrastinating (need to read my course docs). For the record, it’s not a real explosion, it’s actually just some clouds. ‘Cause I’m creative like that…. read full entry »

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I am sure the majority of you are absolutely oblivious to the fact that there’s been a bit of excitement (hah) in British politics this past week or so. Rumours were flying about whether or not our PM — Gordon Brown — would call a general election or not. Brown (rightfully so, in my opinion)… read full entry »

One of the questions I get asked most in life — aside from “why are you so brilliant Jem?” — is why don’t I drive? Apart from the obvious, in that I can see my work front door from my front door, I really don’t think the world needs another maniac on the road. On… read full entry »

I’ve just heard that Britney Spears has lost custody of her children to her (ex?) husband K-Fed. Now, I don’t know much about all that’s gone on with her but for a judge to hand over custody to the father over the mother, she must have done something pretty screwed up. I’m sure many of… read full entry »

It’s that time of year again. Most students are back from their summer holidays, settling in to the old routine AKA mass procrastination to avoid their homework. These avoidance techniques commonly include starting a “WPR”, or “web page review [site]”. It’s a harmless pastime, but it never fails to amuse me how many of these… read full entry »

Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiving comments from people called “Guardian Dental” and “Cisco Vpn”. Now, I’ve heard some funny names in my time but I’m pretty sure we haven’t stooped as low as naming our children after insurance and networking tools. The problem is, aside from the spammy name and URL the… read full entry »

Recently I had Jacky come with up with an actual logo for tutorialtastic. Something that I could work with, create a new layout around and generally identify my long-neglected tutorial site. The only problem is, while the logo is fab and exactly what I wanted, I am constantly worried about how easy it is to… read full entry »

After giving a grace period of a couple of days in case the issue was not hardware based, I called Dell on Thursday last week about my slightly iffy “t” key. I can’t say as I was looking forward to it — support from any company often ranges from useless to totally wank — but… read full entry »

Mega thanks to Jacky for my new ninja :)