Archive for 2002

Just wanted to say Happy Christmas to everyone that pops by World of Badger from time to time. Things are a bit mad here at the set, but I hope to post with a bit more regularity in the New Year…

Unfortunately I’ve been rather too busy to update World of Badger much lately. Lots of work and not much time for fun stuff or silly surfing. However, I did get to see Michael Moore at the Roundhouse with Simon and Hadyn last weekend. Wasn’t too sure what to expect of him live, but we left [...]

Having been woken by the cat (who seems to be going mad — to pander to her penchant for grass, she’s got a little flowerpot in the kitchen with grass growing in it, so she can have a bit of a nibble without going outside. As if this isn’t bad enough, she now insists, very [...]

Memo to script kiddie spamming wankers:
I don’t use formmail!
I’m getting really pissed off with script kiddies poking around looking for a copy of formmail here at outofthetrees. For those that don’t know, formmail is a perl cgi script, written by a pillock chap called Matt Wright, that takes the information entered into a form on [...]

The Register has drawn up a list of how major UK banks and shops cope with non-Internet Explorer browsers. Makes for drepressing, if not totally surprising reading. Among the worst offenders were Marks & Spencer (doesn’t like Mozilla or Opera), Nat West (only supports IE, Netscape 4) and Scottish Power (even prevents Linux users accessing [...]

Just watched the Channel 4 News, which included a piece on Microsoft’s Palladium. I think that this is the first time I’ve seen any mention of the whole ‘Trusted Computing’/Digital Rights Management/MS megalomania plans in the mainstream, non-Geek news. Hopefully we’ll see more coverage elsewhere, as this is such an important issue — it effectively [...]

Just came across a site that I felt compelled to post up here: Mojo Town. Now I know Flash sites tend to rate pretty low on accessibility and usability scales, but this one, for a multimedia agency in the States, is a work of art. One thing — be prepared for several minutes wait if [...]

Sorry about the hiatus, but I’ve actually been doing some work! Rob and I have decided to join forces professionally, and have already got several webby projects on the go. More on that as soon as I’ve got a few minutes — my main non-work priority is to answer some of the emails that have [...]

Met up with Simon on Monday night, and we went off for a bite to eat at the Soho Thai Restaurant in St. Anne’s Court (just off Dean Street). Despite the fact that I’d actually had a meal about two hours earlier, I thought it would be rude to sit and watch Si eat, so [...]

This season, the well-dressed pet will be going with the kung fu kitten look. And what should the owners be wearing this Autumn? Personally, I think hats of meat are the new black. Of course, you’ll need a new hairdo to compliment your hat, so why not draw inspiration from Mullets Galore?
An old link for [...]

The stylesheet tinkering continues: I’ve now done what I should have done a long time ago, and made this page a bit more accessible. Out go the “designers’ folly” 12px font sizes, and in comes relatively-sized text (using the technique outlined at dive into accessibility) which should be resizable in Internet Explorer as well as [...]

The PC gremlins have prevented any updates for the last few days (the drinking and hangovers didn’t help much either). Went to the East Dulwich Tavern with Rob on Wednesday night, before too many nightcaps back here. Despite feeling grim all day, met up with Rob again on Thursday afternoon, and we proceeded to drink [...]

I’ve finally got round to rejigging the XHTML and stylesheet for these pages. The previous markup was valid, but a bit messy; for example, each entry’s topic icon/link, entry title and date were all contained within an <h3> tag. This is certainly where the title belongs, and I suppose one could argue that the topic [...]