So why do Vodaphone need to put a mobile telephone phone mast at South Croydon Railway Station? Everyone I know gets a good signal from Vodaphone in the area so why are they doing it? Well it looks like the people on the trains coming up from Brighton have complained that reception is not very good on their mobile...

Recently brandchannel.com reviewed a commercial web site that I have spent the past five years dramatically improving. The site in question now conforms to WAI AA standards, is fully CSS driven, has a crisp conservative design that supports its brand extremely well but the Brandchannel reviewer gave it a right good...

It is 1pm and in two hours our annual Garden party starts. We have nearly everything ready that we can think of, oh I just remembered something else, and Paula has just gone to get the food. The drinks should be arriving in the next hour, though we have enough to last an hour or so. Kingsley and his magic piano...

I have just spotted Richard Branson abseiling down the North East corner or Number 1 Canada Square - the Tower with the pointy roof. When I say abseil he wasn't lowering himself down a rope using proper abseiling gear, he wasn't bouncing down the windows as you are meant to, he was tied off in a sling and the rope...

CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt arrived yesterday and I ploughed through it last night. This is a good book that will appeal to both new CSS dabblers and hardened cynics alike. CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt arrived yesterday and I plowed through last night. This is a Good book that not only will appeal to...

Earlier on today I realised that I had not got around to finishing off the commenting on this site properly. I had fallen asleep at the keyboard one night and forgotten to finish what I was doing. This explains why I have not had many comments latley! The Typekey link didn't work (Am I the only one that uses it?)...

I noticed something interesting when I was using Bloglines this morning, both Erick Meyers site and Mark Pilgrims use the same fav icon. Now why is that? Is it like a secret mark of the 'web standards in crowd' or has one of them just nicked it off the other? Has anyone else seen a Ying and Yang fav.ico anywhere else?

If you design and build websites, like what I does, one of the best reason for changing you browser to Firefox isn't the standards compatability, isn't the superb syncronise bookmarks extension, it is the Web Developer extension developed and provided by Chris Pederick. This extension adds nearly everything you need...

In the last build of my Blog I had a side panel that allowed users to translate the entire site into a number of languages. The idea was that I could reach out to more people. Translating your Blog In the last build of my Blog I had a side panel that allowed users to translate the entire site into a number of...

Someone has tried to post a comment on my site that was a full html advert for some kids micro scooters - essentially a site map of burningcar(dot)net sitting inside my comments. This takes the biscuit. Someone using the e-mail address cnpocketbikes(at)yahoo.com has tried to post a comment on my site that was a full...

It looks like researchers have discovered that the lack of oxygen suffered by climbers at altitude can be counteracted by Viagra - hence the cheeky headline. Just spotted a brilliant story over at the beeb: Viagra 'protects climbers' lungs' It looks like (female?) researchers at the University of Geissen, Germany...

Nova Spivack has produced a second version of his Meme project already. This time he has expanded the payback to all other sites that join in. If you are reading this and have a blog please do join in by following the instructions below! Copy This GoMeme From This Line to The End of This Article, and paste into your...