http://joshuagoodwin.com More than just a weblog, it's a crap weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:07:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I paid a visit to a place called Aldeburgh, a seaside town. It's where some relations are---as they do every summer---renting a house for a horrifically high amount of money. And yes, I found it a fairly pleasant excursion, even if it did require a two-hour car journey both ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/were-at-the-seaside-lets-sit-in-the-car-eating-chips/ Yesterday was a monumental day in the history of this blog, for two reasons. Okay, not quite monumental, but that got you excited, did it not? The triumph First and foremost, I was dizzy with joy to read that my article on sandwich fillings had won a small pseudo-competition on Upstart Blogger. ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/a-triumph-and-a-titivation/ I recently purchased seven pairs of snazzy, cotton-rich socks from Marks & Spencer. (Yes, I just spent a good few minutes trawling their website to find the exact same pair. I typed the product code in from the original packaging and everything. Madness.) Since my sock collection had been until ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/organised-socks/ This is an extremely boring article to let you know that this little piggy has returned from his trip to Liverpool, that pseudo-holiday which I detailed in the previous update. I'm not going to tell you all the gory details. This is because the trip was about as gory as a ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/im-back/ ’Ello, ’ello, ’ello! ’Tis I, the author, ’ere---except it's not. For, at present, I'm sort-of holidaying over in the fine city of Liverpool, without internet access. Don't get your knickers in a twist, though---it's not my ghost writing this, or something equally mind-numbingly crazy. This post is brought to you by ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/im-in-liverpool/ There's nothing like a nice competition, and the one I've been running---in which you can win the domain name cofreehost.com---has been a tremendous success. A whopping three people entered (excluding rish22, who failed to put the word "asparagus" in her entry, and hence wasn't entered. No asparagus, no entry---rules are ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/congratulations/ I fell down the stairs this evening. I'm okay, though, you'll be glad (or disappointed) to hear. None of my limbs fell off, or anything. I stayed the right way up. I just sort of slid---like a wheel-free version of the perambulator in The Battleship Potemkin---landing with a thunk against ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/a-post-loaded-with-bits-and-bobs/ On Sunday, I wrote something about Browsershots---a free tool for seeing what a website looks like in different web browsers. And, I have to say, what I wrote was rubbish. Okay, it wasn't too bad. But, in my opinion, it could have been a whole lot better. There are heaps of ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/its-tim-too-show-ruhsed-bog-potss-the-door/ The current design of this blog isn't bad, if I do say so myself. It's inoffensive. There isn't so much as a whiff of Comic Sans MS or gaudy, flashing animated clip-art. But it's just a bit bland. I like simple, minimalist designs. However, I fancy having a go at knocking ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/the-redesign-and-the-wordpress-theme/ Today, my friends, I'd like to draw your attention towards a magical thing called Browsershots. For those who make websites, it could be a terrific tool. But what is Browsershots? Well, that's a good question, best answered by this from the Browsershots home page: Browsershots makes screenshots of your Web design in ... http://joshuagoodwin.com/articles/test-your-site-in-multiple-browsers-with-browsershots/