Archive for “2006”

On this page the following entries were made in the “2006” time-frame.


UK2.net 2 years on.

Posted Nov 10th, 2006 by Rich

2 years ago I blogged about my experiences with UK2.net, a hosting company here in the UK. The post Why not to use UK2.net has at the time of writing received 105 comments. Most of these are from people sharing their bad experience when dealing with UK2 support.
Recently Ditlev Bredahl the Managing Director of UK2 [...]

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GAWDS on zdnet

Posted Nov 3rd, 2006 by Rich

The Guild of Accessible Web Designers get a mention in a ZDnet article - Web 2.0: A step backwards for accessibility?. I assume they meant to link to the GAWDS website but looks like they couldn’t manage to code the link correctly:
<A title=”Guild of Accessible Web Designers” htm=”http://www.gawds.org/”>Guild of Accessible Web Designers”</A>
Earlier in the article [...]

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Firefox 2 - yet another accessibility bug

Posted Nov 2nd, 2006 by Rich

Only installed Firefox 2 yesterday and already I have found some quirks with it.
Go to Google do a search on anything you like, I was searching for and try and hover the mouse over the sponsored links. The first link in the list seems to be OK but the others become inaccessible to mouse [...]

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Microsoft(R) Firefox released!

Posted Oct 27th, 2006 by Rich

The new award-winning browser from Microsoft is now faster, securer and quicker anything else on the market. Why use anything else?
Find out more at
Microsoft(R) Firefox.
Oh and remember to read the fine print!

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Premier Travel Inn - yuck

Posted Oct 25th, 2006 by Rich

I have often used Premier Travel Inn because for a family of 4 it can be somewhat cheaper than an ordinary hotel, or even a Bed & Breakfast. But after what happened last weekend in London I don’t know if we will be quite so quick to use them again.

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Yesterday I moved some books

Posted Oct 18th, 2006 by Rich

because yesterday we had some new bookcases fitted. 8 foot plus bookcases, which may be a bit excessive but they have managed to hold virtually all our books!
Plus, and I have wanted this since we moved here, a built in TV unit that actually hides the majority of the cables that are now associated with [...]

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