Horuskol

I'm trying a little experiment - hybridising my design to work well in desktop and mobile browsers without having to have two separate style specifications. This should mean easier maintenance and modifications over the future - but, we'll see.

This isn't too hard to do with a simple design like this - although, as I've just discovered (yet again) there are always little foibles in exactly what kind of CSS is supported in the various different browsers (rendering all my links "invisible" for a short time on Android phones).

I wish I'd checked this out before posting the last article - I would have held off that one and just done the one post this week. Still - this isn't going to be a long post.

You may or may not have become aware of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protest-IP Act) - suffice to say, there is a highly charged discussion about the relative merits of these bills currently in the process of running through the meat grinder that is the Legislative Branch of the US Government.

I read The Cuckoo's Egg a couple of weeks ago. I heard about it at TVTropes (no link, that site is a time-stealer ;) ) - in the mid-1980s one of the Berkeley computer staff was given a problem where there was a calculation error in the logs used to bill the various departments which used the various computers on campus.

About a month ago, I'd made myself get off the train a couple of stops up from my usual, and walked 3 km home (instead of the less than 1,000 m from my nearest station), and as I walking I asked myself why I didn't do this any more often than once a fortnight - it didn't take a long time (about 30 minutes), I enjoyed the time to reflect on the day I'd just had, and the 3 km was enough to warm my leg muscles up without overworking them, meaning I could easily do the same day after day.

Update

I've been fighting myself into writing the next great PHP framework for a while now - I've had a couple of good stabs at it, but never really progressed beyond the prototype phase. This is mostly because I'd get stuck into something at work which would wipe my brain out and I'd end up not doing any of my own work in the evenings while I wound down. The other thing that has been getting in the way is that I want to spend more time on my photography - time taking and processing photos is time not developing.

A new blog - yeah, I'm back at it again.

The last year or so, I've been more interested in writing short witticisms and updates on Twitter. However, I've been thinking that I would like to write something more than 140 characters from time to time. I thought that Google+ would be the platform for that, but it became pretty obvious that Google+ is not a blogging platform.