The received wisdom of the Google era has been "content, not keywords". All well and good, you may think: the better and more relevant your content, the higher your search engine position. Back in 2000, I wrote a post about selecting my fantasy football team. When I imported this, along with the rest of my Blogger blog, into Movable Type, I needed to come up with a title for the post. Read more...

A long time ago (three years, actually) in a galaxy far, far away (or rather, at Blogger) I started a blog. The date of the first post was August 9th 2000 and I said the following: I decided to set up another blog, this time for general stuff. I have to say — this rocks… Another blog? What? Well, I had already set one up for my obsolescent Vinyl Obsession project, the posts from which have been folded into the music category here at it could be worse. Read more...

Rachel Cunliffe and her husband Regan have a few excess CDs to get rid of, so get yourselves to The Sale “if you like City on a Hill, Song for Worship, Michael W. Smith, Third Day, Jars of Clay or the Paul Colman Trio.” Oh, they’re in New Zealand, but are quite willing and able to ship to the UK, US, wherever. Plus the exchange rate means that they’re cheap!

In progress. All the best sites do it, so I’m going to as well.

My Dad, Peter Beadle, is 70 today! Woo! Have a good one, Dad.

I finally got an "automated" reply from Richer Sounds, though how it can be automated when they took nearly a day to respond, I’ll never know: Thank you for E-Mailing Richer Sounds. We will endevour (sic) to answer your email ASAP, however if this is of an urgent nature please call our Customer Services Team on: 0870 900 1000 (National Rate Call) 10am-6pm Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm on Saturdays and 12-4 Bank Read more...

So Wayne Bridge has gone to Chelsea. I can’t say I’m surprised. Once the contract talks were underway I resigned myself to the fact that he would leave. It’s in the past now, and we have £7m plus Graham Le Saux on subsidised-by-Chelsea wages on a two-year contract. Even at 34, he’s a quality player. I can’t help feeling that, once again, Southampton have been beaten to the top headline spot — this time by the Damien Duff transfer saga. Read more...

I received a late birthday present over the weekend: £30 of Richer Sounds vouchers. I would dearly love to spend them, but the web site’s navigation menu doesn’t work in Mozilla-based browsers. The menu expands, but nothing happens when you click on a link. I’ve e-mailed customer services, but alas, I have had no reply as yet. I’ll keep you posted. I am trying to browse your web site, but the left-hand menu doesn’t work in my browser — Mozilla 1. Read more...

This week, I have mostly been reworking some of our existing web sites to use web standards instead of ghastly nested-table design hacks. It’s satisfying that, after two years of banging on about it, people that matter (i.e. managers, marketing people, producers) have started to smell the coffee. And the coffee smells a lot like valid (X)HTML/CSS/DOM/ECMAScript. The benefits of all this? Sites that: download more quickly are more accessible to both disabled people and those browsing the web using non-traditional devices (e. Read more...

We’d like you to meet our two newest friends: Ella and Nina. They’re 17 weeks old, quite small, and run around like the clappers! We got them from Bath Cats and Dogs Home on June 29th, and they’ve grown loads already. Ella, the tiger-striped one, is pretty chilled but Nina, the dark tabby one, has vicious claws. It probably doesn’t help that her right eye is cloudy, but we’re giving her eye drops to try and sort that out. Read more...