http://www.acquiweb.com/blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:38:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Leona Lewis covered Snow Patrol's Run a while back for Radio 1's Live Lounge. Then it was outstanding, I'm not a particular fan of Leona but her version made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Tonight she sang it live on the X Factor and if you ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/16/run/ I just love stand-up comedy and one of my favourite comedians at the moment is the genius that is Ross Noble. I'm going to see him in May in Belfast and judging by classics like this sketch, it'll be night to remember. If you haven't see this I hope you enjoy, ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/15/next-muffin/ So goal king Cole has finally decided to hang up his boots failing to make a mark at Notts Forest and a legend retires. Andy Cole, I refuse to call him Andrew, was one favourite all time United players. I'll never forget the day he signed for United and the feeling ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/12/merry-old-soul/ Just recently I've been playing around with Facebook, primarily from a work point of view investigating mash-ups as I look at ways of using social networks to disseminate Government info. I signed up to Facebook many moons ago but never used it so now it's like a new toy, albeit it ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/30/word-up/ This evening I was on my way to the in-laws and mistimed my run as it was that time of the day when one of the local farmers takes his cows to the milking parlour. As I sat on the country road rather unusually a bus was in front of me ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/06/bus-sign/ On Saturday I wrote about my first experiences with the Wii Browser and since I've tested a few pages to fix my css problem. I found the quirk straight away which was down to positioning. I'd set the css properties of the logo in the banner to position: relative and left: ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/06/wii-browser-reloaded/ Recently I've been investigating Google Analytics which is an excellent free tool for website stats reporting. I added the script to a main Departmental site which I've done all of the development work for and know intimately. It's been interesting to see the effect of their recent campaigns and how successful ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/04/wii-browser/ Today was the first match of the season for my beloved Comber Star. We got promoted despite finishing 3rd last season thanks to the entry of new teams to the league. There was much mirth before the match as we put on our new kit, a nice red and black number ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/13/new-season/ Recently in work I've noticed an increase in the launch of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and been asked to give advice from an accessibility point of view. Before even looking at the application my first response is a simple one - provide an accessible alternative. That is give the user a ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/05/gis-accessibility/ This year during my holiday to France I was fortunate to visit Parc Asterix, or as we English speaking people like to call it, Asterix Park. As a child I used to love reading Asterix books and used to pester my local librarian for any book which I'd never read, often ... http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/11/by-toutatis/