Archive for July, 2004

My knee. Again.

Posted on July 27, 2004 ~ Filed Under Diary

I had my long-awaited appointment with the orthopedic consultant today. I first hurt my knee in January and spent a few months doing physiotherapy before my physiotherapist told me there was nothing more he could do, and the problems that remained would have to be checked out by a specialist. He said I’d likely need [...]

Ordering a train ticket is a nightmare

Posted on July 26, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

I’ve just fought with www.thetrainline.com again. I hate that site. It makes it SO difficult to buy a ticket, but unfortunately it seems that all the websites selling UK train tickets are run using the same underlying, flawed, system. As an example, I can’t search for train times without logging in. Why? What’s the point [...]

JKP relaunch

Posted on July 26, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Well, I’ve been a busy little bee. I relaunched the website for Jessica Kingsley Publishers at the weekend. The site has been redesigned and recoded with a bit of extra functionality. The main thing that has changed is that the site now uses Smarty templates. I’ve always been reluctant to use formal templating systems in [...]

QuarkXPress 6.1 upgrade text problem

Posted on July 9, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

We just upgraded to QuarkXPress 6.1 at work and have run into some problems. When we opened documents previously built and saved in Quark 4 everything seemed fine. We then saved as Quark 6 documents and ran into the following error message
“This document was built with other version of some fonts or using QuarkXPress 3.1 [...]

The Howards on The Morning

Posted on July 7, 2004 ~ Filed Under Culture

A review that made me laugh of the Howards appearing on This Morning (might require registration). You’ve really got to wonder why politicians put themselves through such things.