Jem's field notes

To celebrate the success of writing my very own, first ever PHP class I’ve been re-writing the backend of the site. It probably means nothing to you guys, but basically means things should be a bit quicker, a little more “optimised”. I’ve also decided to rejig how the site is laid out too — things… read full entry »

First off, I’d like to apologise to anyone who I snapped at, made feel uncomfortable, or just generally didn’t watch what I was typing thus unintentionally upset yesterday. It was the 6th anniversary of Ian’s death and, whilst I was generally fine and cheerful in the morning, a few things at home set me off… read full entry »

I’m out of material to do a few of my famous unrequested reviews on, so if you know of any shit websites, do feel free to let me know. Either add the URL in a comment or e-mail me. Preferrably shit reviewing/tutorial websites — they seem to be the most fun to do. I think… read full entry »

For those of you who don’t usually check my other sites.. there’s several new tutorials at tutorialtastic.co.uk and a new review at Review-You. And no, I’ve still not decided what to do with RY.

Reviewed: Kathleen Site URL: band-o.org I seem to be reviewing the skin “RockyBliss”. My first impression involves the word “cack” so I’m not sure if I should continue. The background colour, while obviously selected from the top photograph, is tediously plain and doesn’t compliment your layout like it should. A pattern, or anything to break… read full entry »

I was in the bedroom thinking again last night (anyone spot a trend here?) and came to the conclusion that my bookcase, the one that Karl went out and bought in August, perfectly represents my life. How sad is that, eh? My life can be ‘explained’ within three shelves. First, there’s the bottom shelf: There’s… read full entry »

I was thinking about Review-You last night whilst tidying up in the bedroom (completely irrelevant, I know) and have come to the conclusion that it is probably best if I close the website when the domain name expires. Don’t get me wrong, I love reviewing, love owning the site and love the fact that people… read full entry »

Finally, tutorialtastic is live. After some minor issues with a some .htaccess magic, and a moment of last minute panic where I realised I needed to use “../” before internal links in all of my tutorials; I have it up! There’s still some links which’ll be broken until I fix them, some tutorials that didn’t… read full entry »

I’ve been doing a few updates to coding around the site whilst working on tutorialtastic for tomorrow, and that includes enabling comments on my reviews — it’s just the web ones at the moment but will extend to the book and game reviews. I’ve also updated the sitemap and answered the few pending few pending… read full entry »

I’m looking for volunteers! As most of you have probably heard (because I haven’t stopped going on about it) I have been developing tutorialtastic none stop for the past couple of weeks and I intend to get the new version up on Friday. My patience depending, of course. Anyway, when it’s released I want it… read full entry »