The FOUND Magazine website from America, describes itself thus:

“We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes…”

I find some of the finds in this collection of ephemeral items are quite funny, and some, thought provoking. What do you think?…

I asked Tomeo to load up jtonline.info on his Apple iPhone at lunch time today, and I was pleased to see that this blog seems to work as intended on the Safari browser (thanks Tom).

It wasn’t a very extensive testing session, but confirmed to me that XHTML compliant code and the recent change from a Flash based photo slideshow to the current thumbnail layout, has been worth the time it’s taken to do.

So, I’ve viewed the blog successfully in IE7, Firefox and iPhone Safari. Hmm.. I haven’t tried IE6 yet…

Leafing through the pages of the May edition of PC Plus magazine, I came across a little article about WAMPs.

WAMPs are independently-created programs that can be installed on Microsoft Windows based computers.  The acronym is formed from the initials of Windows and the package’s principal components, namely: Apache, MySQL and PHP.

By installing a WAMP on my computer, I would have all the necessary components to enable me to run WordPress locally.  I thought, this would be ideal for developing WordPress themes without the need to constantly upload changes to the Web for testing on a published site.

I therefore downloaded WampServer 2, an open source WAMP, free to use under the terms of a GPL licence.  I was impressed with the ease of installation (I’m sure it would be much more of a hassle to download and install the components individually) and once installed, it was also easy to get WordPress 2.5 running locally on my laptop. I think I’ll do the same on my desktop PC.

From now on it should be much easier to work with WordPress files and themes. I’ll only have to upload the files to the web once after they’ve been fully tested on one of my new development servers!

This evening I set about updating my Laptop with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 via the automatic update facility.  It’s just over an hour after pressing ‘Download’ now and all the necessary bits and bobs have been downloaded and installed.

Microsoft claims on their website:

SP1 doesn’t add features or require you to learn anything new—it simply makes your PC more reliable, run more smoothly, and even more enjoyable to use, all at no charge.

More enjoyable eh?  Just gonna do a reboot then; I can hardly contain my excitement….

I’ve just read an article in the Living section of the Sky.com website that says the financial services firm Mint, conducted a survey which concluded that, following a big increase in cyber dating, couples are now more likely to meet over the internet than face-to-face. Apparently, single people stand more chance of being introduced to a potential partner on the web than at a party or on holiday.

Perhaps there’s hope for me yet then.