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What's Going On Here?

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Welcome to another technology blog! :)

I use the internet a lot. Every day. I use it for fun, and I use it for my job. As with most people who work with tech for a living, the internet is that irreplaceable tool which means that the instruction manuals get dusty and system documentation only leaves the shelf when there’s a certification to be done.

But most of all, I find it’s the place to discover how somebody else did it. How the guy in Texas fixed that bug, or how the girl in Bristol made that cool widget. And I’ve been taking for too long. Time to give something back and make a home for useful things that would otherwise just fall out of my head.

The Website

It’s taken a while, but it looks about right and it’s got room to grow. It also uses things I couldn’t get away with in the days when I designed sites for other people. HTML5. CSS3. A ridiculous number of border-radius attributes. It looks rubbish in Internet Explorer.

If you’re viewing this in Internet Explorer, I’m sorry. It’ll look boxy and things probably won’t line up quite right. Not only that, but I’ve purposely not fixed things. I’ve done this because:

I can.
It’s just the decor; you can still read stuff.
If we all keep finding loopholes, workarounds and cludges to get IE to display properly, the less impetus Microsoft has to fix it, and the fewer people will see any point in upgrading to newer versions. It exacerbates the problem.

It’ll also be nice to upgrade IE on my little Windows box occasionally and see what has been fixed. The only exception to all of the above is the HTML5 shiv, otherwise things would have been just too weird for you IE guys.