http://www.wellho.net/horse/ Musing, events and thoughts from Graham Ellis en-us Copyright 2008 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:11:01 +0000 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:25:27 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Nothing gives me greater please than to hear from a customer who writes "My line manager is quite keen for me to work on those web programming skills for various proposed, so we've already discussed it, and I don't think... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001637 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001637 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:11:01 +0000 The Web Server Administrator has two choices as to what he / she should do when a content provider doesn't supply a home page (index.html or similar) in a directory - either he can generate an error such as a... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001636 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001636 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:01:07 +0000 Yesterday evening, Lisa and I got a breath of fresh air in Devizes - a beautiful Spring evening with leaves on the trees where 2 weeks ago there were just twigs. Moored at the wharf on the Kennet and Avon... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001635 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001635 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:02 +0000 The headline on our story reads "We've got a New Online Booking System for our Open Source courses" ... but there's a story behind that headline. We pride ourselves in our flexibility - the ability to treat each customer as... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001634 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001634 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:22:41 +0000 Here's a challenge. I want to change the screen saver on a mac mini, running OSX, from a browser anywhere in the world. You may well ask why ... the screen of the mac mini is to be visible at... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001633 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001633 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:49:19 +0000 Lua is a powerful, lightweight scripting language. It combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. It is ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has been used in many industrial... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001632 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001632 Mon, 05 May 2008 10:57:56 +0000 A Sunday afternoon - and a Bank Holiday one at that. I'm not sure why (suggestions of age and workload are probably along the right lines!) but I lay down just after lunchtime and dozed ... and, up again... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001631 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001631 Sun, 04 May 2008 16:41:55 +0000 My email this morning brought me a report of a broken link on our web site. Which I investigated, and found to be within a blog entry I had written a year ago, and linked to someone else's site over... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001630 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001630 Sun, 04 May 2008 08:50:01 +0000 Hotel guests and other visitors are often interested in the Computer Training we do at Well House Manor, but hitherto our sales and marketing material really hasn't included a handy single sheet to explain. There's a good reason for this... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001629 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001629 Sat, 03 May 2008 16:29:52 +0000 I wrote a piece of project planning code - to generate GANT charts in PHP - when we were planning all the works on Well House Manor the best part of 2 years ago now. And although I did little... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001628 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001628 Sat, 03 May 2008 15:47:28 +0000 Look around at your family, and you'll find some remarkable people - and look a little beyond your immediate group to slightly more distant relatives, and you'll find some people who amaze you. We knew her as "Molly" but by... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001627 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001627 Fri, 02 May 2008 08:53:28 +0000 Welcome to May. A mad busy April gives way to a quiet week next week - perhaps caused in a part by the fact that I've simply not had the time to go out marketing courses, and in part by... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001626 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001626 Thu, 01 May 2008 08:40:11 +0000 My picture of a train bursting out of the West portal of Box Tunnel - taken a year or two back - come up as one of the top hits on Google. But Box tunnel has two ends ... and... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001625 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001625 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:28:10 +0000 Hi, I'm Freddie the fallow deer and I would like to introduce you to my home at Dyrham Park. Some of the older trees in the park have fallen and newer trees have been planted ... and there's plenty... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001624 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001624 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:32:16 +0000 So many people know the basis of PHP - the language constructs themselves and how they work individually - but could really benefit from learning how to make the best of those elements. And these techniques for putting the elements... http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001623 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001623 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:33 +0000