A. For a variety of reasons...there are only 24 hours in a day, I'm getting older and therefore no longer able to stay healthy for too long without sleep, my day-job is making ever-increasing demands on my time, I'm married (joke, darling, joke.....!) etc, etc. You don't like it? Go do your own web site then! :-)
A. I gave up a long time ago trying to code round the way Netscape 4 renders web pages. This particular browser has too many faults to bother listing them. I test my XHTML code using KDE's Konqueror, Opera 5.x and 6.x, Internet Exploder 5.x and 6.x, Galeon 1.2, Mozilla 0.9 and Netscape 6.x. The site looks fine in all these browsers, so go figure...
A. Way back before the dawn of time (well, in 1999 actually!) I had a Freeserve account, with a really stupid login name that was derived from my initials and house number. I thought it would be a pretty geeky thing to do to get a login with the word "linux" in it, so I tried it on the Freeserve signup server. It came back telling me that "linux.freeserve.co.uk" was already taken as a user name, but I could have "linux79.freeserve.co.uk" if I wanted it. As this sucked pretty badly, and everybody else in the computer industry was hanging grimly onto the year 2000 bandwagon at the time, I thought "linux2000.freeserve.co.uk" would be better and opted for that instead. 12 months later, Freenetname launched, with their offer of a free .UK domain registration for any subscriber who wanted one, I signed up and got LINUX2000.ORG.UK registered in my name. The rest, as they say, is history...
A. Sometimes it's easy to forget that the web is a global thing, and I end up slipping in the odd reference here and there to things which won't mean diddley to anyone who isn't a Brit. Freeserve and Freenetname are UK ISP's, both of whom offer free internet access to anyone in the UK who wants it. Well, you still have to pay for the phone calls, but that's all.
A. The previous version of this web site used a series of logos that were tastefully crafted in a very elegant bronze colour using Gimp 1.1. Regrettably, when viewed in a web browser, the colour looked more like a muddy brown, prompting one of my work colleagues to comment that it gave the whole site the overall appearance of a menu from a somewhat down market Indian takeaway.
