Very much a work in progress

Its been almost 10 years since I did any web design in anger as I favour working on the backend either JEE or .Net MVC but I've always been lucky enough to work with some talented designers that seem happy spending all day messing with confusing arrays of CSS files.

Rather than jump straight in with angular or similar I decided to start right back at the beginning, where I began back in the 90's, simple html with simple CSS and build gradually on that. The only downside of course will be that for a while this site will look a bit dated and not very cool but I don't think anyone but me has looked at it for the past 10 years so don't really care 😁

I have had a few ideas that I think I'll go with as a start...

educational games for kids!
adaptive file reader - actually this seems interesting
categorisation of geographic location in a progressive manner
neat little statistics calculator

This list seems to change in my head every 5 minutes so who knows what I'll add, it all depends on how much time I actually have really.

Plus I really should think about a logo or something

this is a test

20201228

OMG!

Once again I am astounded by how little time I get to actually do anything on this site! I have a distinct lack of enthusiasm for any of it right now anyway since I am still coming to terms with the incompetence of the government and stupidity of much of the population. So anyway we've entered into another lock-down so let's see if this one can prevent the new strain from spreading.

20200917

Fire!

It's frustrating but it seems that no sooner have I started to actually make use of my web site that life simply gets in the way. Not least of all was the fact that my laptop burst into flames, alas my faithful old clevo w230st is no more, I have replaced it with a rather nice Asus Zenbook flip 14 and I must admit I am really starting to like this bit of kit, for a start it's far quieter, the only issue I do have is the Fn+F keys arrangement it seems odd.

20200704

Progress

Just as I expected in the past month I've had about 3-4 hours to actually work on the site and typically I now have writers block! Never mind I did get a chance to make the site behave a little better on small screens, I also fixed the research and about links as mentioned before.

Things to do for next time

I need to create some actual content, even just rough text, just something.

20200529

Update for small screens

Use media queries to allow the layout to respond to reduced screen real estate. This now seems to work.

Add some social media

Add a minor twitter feed, just for fun. Doesn't really do much, but was very simple to include.

Fix Research and About link

At the moment the Research and About links require the text to be clicked and not just the highlighted section. Yep I still need to sort this out.

20200704

In the garden

So the wheat isn't doing much, guess I planted it just a little too late anyway, it's still alive which is good it's just not very big. My daughter asked that I plant some apple seeds from the apple she was eating so I did and hey presto they've now started to grow, I'll have to add some pictures at some point.

The weather recentley has caused the glue to fail on the lid to my formicarium so I've found a couple of the little fellas roaming around looking for food.

20200529

In the garden

It's been a good spring in the garden and I decided to plant some wheat. I've now also planted some old chilli seeds, not expecting anything to happen and they all germinated, which is a bonus 😄

20210104

On lockdown - AGAIN

Everybody, except for the UK prime minister knew this was going to happen, yet somehow it still hurts! The school teachers were primed for a return of the kids, seeing them after all is what they live for let's face it it's not the wages that keeps you in a job like that or the holidays there has to be something more and there is, knowing your turning troublesome little bundles into well adjusted confident productive young people free to follow their own dreams. To be honest I'd love to be a teacher but know I wouldn't be any good at it.

So the prime minister said yesterday schools were all safe, despite the unions saying they weren't, the Scottish saying they weren't, the SAGE scientists saying they weren't my god this PM is a joke!

20200704

On lockdown

Still in lockdown.

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