Well, I’m now running on Firefox 2… and very good it is too (even if it asking me to check the spelling of the word “Firefox” in this blog).

Meantime, after the recent publicity, I thought I’d give the Copy+ website a bit of a technical refresh by upgrading it to XHTML. Shame it didn’t work. In IE6 and before, the XML tag causes it to go into “quirks mode” which means my CSS doesn’t render correctly. Yes, I could have sorted that out with time and effort but as XHTML doesn’t actually give me any advantage, it’s really not worth it. So I’ve rolled the changes back and the site is back to how it was. With an added Web 2.0-styley-supermarket-sticker on it (as demonstrated on the left). Just don’t get me started on Web 2.0….

Some fame! Kind of. To the right you’ll find a scan of a news article in the December issue of PCW. And it’s about one of the websites I run for the Copy+ software which a friend of mine wrote. Unfortunately, it’s technical inaccurate. But the fame is good!

My devoted 40gb WD Passport Drive is no longer with us.

I accidentely dropped it onto concrete from about 5ft on Friday and it’s now rather broken. I use it to ferry personal data between work and home (I get a lot of my web development work done during my lunchtimes at work, for example).

I do back it up, but I’ve not done it for a couple of weeks (I know, I know – I’ll sort that out now) so it’s been a slow job of recreating any changes. There’s still work to do, and some stuff I’ll have lost. Oh well.

And on order from Amazon is a shiny new replacement drive – a black 60gb WD passport. Hmm.

It’s cost me lost work and £60. Sods law I guess.