There is a scene in the episode Who Killed 711? of the 1963 American detective television series Burke's Law in which Burke and crew pay a visit to an eccentric accountant, Harold Harold, who is the prime suspect in a murder. Entering into his hotel room, they find
A lot of people in the small web space have a tendency to get intimidated by the idea of making their website accessible. This, of course, results in many websites being inaccessible for many people. But when you’re just one person, meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is
It was spring and I was inspired. It had been a long time since I’d felt inspired. Decades. But the creativity and joy I’d found on the personal web had roused some long-dormant impulse. I got into all this computer stuff as a hobby and used to spend
I still remember that coffee machine[1]. I recall how we used to stay up in the university computer lab, often until late at night, fascinated in front of its image while immersed in the ghostly glare of some black and white Mac SE/30 screen monitors. We repeatedly refreshed
My website, James’ Coffee Blog, is now over five years old. I seldom thought about how old my website was until recently, when I looked and realised that years had passed since the single black-and-white HTML page that comprised my site. “Hyperlinks are my friend,” I said, in a playful