… will be resumed as soon as possible.

My iBook is mended. It was a genuine fault. I’m happy. More later (possibly much later).

No posts for a couple of days because I've lost control of my iDisk. A colleague is working on a project that requires her to send the designer lots of big image files, around 50Mb each. An obvious case for a simple FTP drop-box, read only, from which the designer could suck the files. Indeed, I mys...

Not an entirely fair title, I grant, but I may be experienced the first pangs of remorse after an on-going fling with open source software. The task has been to implement an image bank on my work website, in spare time and with no money. Clearly a job for open source. The site itself runs on Nucleus, which really is a rather good open source content management system. ¹ And some Nucleus enthusiasts have implemented a kind of photoblog on their sites. But I need much more functionality than those seem to offer.

Two gizmos, one manufacturer, one winner, one loser. The winner is the drop-dead gorgeous PowerMate controller from Griffin. It just works, leaving me wondering what I used to do without it. The loser, Griffin's iTrip. And the fault lies not with Griffin but with the vastly overcrowded airwaves here in Rome.

A request for Drop Shadows on a bulletin board I read sent me to a new (to me) CSS site that contains a very neat solution (and lots of others). Having read the CSS, and admired the output, I bravely decided that I was not going to get caught up in putting drop shadows round my pictures. No sirree...