Jem's field notes

New design, ’cause I got bored of the old one.

One of the things that I find most annoying about myself is my inability to concentrate on a long term goal, or work on a project over a series of months. It’s not that I have issues seeing things through because I do eventually get there, just that I find it a huge struggle to… read full entry »

Customer accidentally asks for their shopping to be sent to the wrong address. Customer tries to get parcel redelivered but the couriers refuse and send the contents back to the depot. Customer e-mails online retailer and asks for the parcel to be resent, quite happy to pay second delivery costs. Do you, as said retailer:… read full entry »

New BellaBuffs is up, see the readme.txt for info. Hope to update BellaBook/BellaBiblio too this week.

Rhys posted today about the things that he’s yet to achieve as a blogger, which in turn got me thinking about the things I have achieved as a blogger slash site owner slash developer (why the hell am I typing out “slash”?!) Although getting free t-shirts and reaching a global audience of thousands is pretty… read full entry »

E-mails, notes, work, script changes, plugins, tutorials, a half-finished review, phpFanBase, the qbee, fanlistings, link changes, CMS, friends, birthdays, questions, forums.. argh! Everything is creeping up on me and I’m finding it impossible to organise myself. Time is my worst enemy it seems. If I drop off the face of the planet, I’m not dead… read full entry »

When I said a while back that I was planning on redoing my CMS, I thought it’d take me forever to even get ’round to thinking about it (partly because of workload, partly because I didn’t know what I want to do with my site). However, the surge of comments on my free t-shirt post… read full entry »

You’ll be pleased to know that I have calculated a winner! I used the power of mighty MySQL to pull all names from the comments table, group by email (to eradicate duplicates) remove those who could not/did not want to enter and randomise the results. Everyone was assigned a number and I save the output… read full entry »

I know that when I rant about web standards and usability I am usually called a fun-spoiler or told that I think too much, but there are reasons for my annoyance at people’s disregard for compliance and any sort of basic testing and that’s because — despite being a developer; far above that even —… read full entry »

I contacted Syswear yesterday and they’ve agreed to let me give away my latest free t-shirt — to one of you guys — that’s any t-shirt from their range of quality geek and gamer t-shirts for absolutely nothing. Entrance is simple, all you have do to is comment once on this entry with the words… read full entry »