Jem's field notes

I’m sat in today, waiting for the plumber to come and fix the hot tap in the bathroom. Instead of doing something constructive like tackling my ridiculous to-do list I’m fiddling with a design I started last night and wondering how I ever manage to finish these things. I could never be a graphic designer…… read full entry »

Feedburner tells me my subscriber count hit over 400 as of today. I feel like I should post something inspirational or deep the mark the occasion but as I’m not a particularly inspirational or deep person I’ll leave you with a question or three. If you’re contributing to my subscriber count by adding my RSS… read full entry »

Not really, but I couldn’t think of a creative title for the random/mixed load of waffle that this entry is going to be. Firstly, I present you with Hex dressing up/playing LOLCAT: Created for your viewing pleasure by Aisling (x3) and Hanna (x1) Next, I can confirm that my course materials have arrived complete with… read full entry »

After ignoring what could possibly be sound advice I decided to order the Dell Vostro 1000. It arrived today, and here I am typing away. Or rather, I’m “yping” away because I seem to have a bit of a dodgy T key. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s new and needs breaking in a… read full entry »

fanbase3 has been virtually ready for release for a couple of months now and I’m sick of waiting around on the beta testers who promised they’d get back to me within a couple of days (and didn’t). If you’re a long-time user of phpfanbase and want to test out an upgrade, or you’re looking for… read full entry »

I just wanted to send out some e-thanks to a few people who’ve helped me remove some of the false exploit “warnings” over the course of the past couple of weeks.. Firstly, Fyodor of insecure.org/seclists.org who removed one of the listings from his websites. Mega thanks to str0ke of milw0rm fame (seriously, I’ve been using… read full entry »

You can see me elsewhere this evening, hehe :)

I finally received confirmation yesterday that my application for the course on web apps I talked about has been received and accepted, so I am trying to tie up as many loose ends and get as much stuff done as possible. This is not as easy as you’d think, because every time I try and… read full entry »

Why is it that the area of the sink underneath our dish-drainer always seems to get dirty, despite the fact that the only thing that ever gets put on it is clean dishes? Our dishes are washed in very hot water so you’d think that the water would drip down from the rack and clean… read full entry »

As many of you will have noticed (CTRL + F5 if you haven’t) the long-overdue restructuring of the site has finally started. I got off my arse and modified the layout (making it fluid) earlier this week, and with the exception of a header overlap bug in < 1024×768 resolutions (which will be fixed) it… read full entry »