When I started writing the Horse's Mouth back in the summer, I wondered if I would find enough to say every day. I needn't have feared, as here I am, months later, not wondering what to write today but wondering what NOT to write!
Every day, I learn something in my job. Ranging from how you use Tcl to talk to Internet Explorer and Excel (yesterday), through a recipe to encourage workmen to complete the job in hand (previous day) and what paperwork is necessary to complete the sale of a narrow boat (the day before). None of these made it here as a full article. And sitting on my "I want to talk about" list remains a longer article on SQL injection, and overdue reply to David on a comment he made - goodness - nearly a week ago, and an explanation of how a photo I took appears in the Calendar of a Reading Civil Engineering company next year.
But perhaps at times I'm getting too technical. So for today, no further mention of work stuff. Just a look forward to the festive season of Christmas, and to a homeful of people around the tree on Christmas day. Young and old. Family and friends. Now that December's here, the corner is turned and I'm looking forward ... to spending some more time with these people and with others that we'll be meeting up with for a drink here, a meal there, and an outing somewhere else.
(written 2004-12-05, updated 2006-06-05)
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[6] Blog v Forum - (2004-08-07)
[18] Wanted: More hours in the day - (2004-08-18)
[145] A comment on comments - (2004-12-09)
[177] Blogs come of age - (2005-01-14)
[185] Who am I? - (2005-01-21)
[204] The confidence to allow public comments - (2005-02-06)
[231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28)
[245] I'm not blogging it - (2005-03-14)
[359] Chicken soup without the religion - (2005-06-26)
[390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions - (2005-07-26)
[405] Horse's Mouth is a year old - (2005-08-07)
[410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12)
[425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26)
[508] Comment, please! - (2005-11-28)
[671] Both ends of the animal - (2006-04-05)
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
[1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ... - (2007-02-12)
[1203] A Fresh horse - (2007-05-24)
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
[2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics - (2009-01-18)
[2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21)
[2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel - (2009-10-11)
[2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections - (2009-11-29)
[2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
[2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble - (2010-05-04)
[2823] Where have all the bloggers gone? - (2010-06-24)
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
[3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets - (2011-02-09)
[3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site - (2011-02-27)
[3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking - (2011-03-20)
[3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours - (2011-11-10)
[3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth - (2012-06-09)
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[4121] Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API - (2013-06-23)
[4292] The Horse is back! - (2014-09-15)
[4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate - (2015-11-02)
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