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Tom Wright's Web Log :: Web Explorations and Voyages of Discovery

This web log is the personal promulgations of Tom Wright, standards advocate, CSS designer, web programmer, database administrator, philosopher and ...

Severn Solutions Portfolio :: PHP CMS

Accessible and Standards Based Lightweight Content Management System Built From PHP and PEAR.

Severn Solutions Portfolio :: Weather Archive System

Weather archiving system for storage, display and interpretation of temperature, pressure and other meterological data.

Severn Solutions :: Services

From Concept to Creation. We are here to help you make your website a reality. We can work with you through every stage of the development process from an ...

Severn Solutions :: Portfolio of Web Development Projects

Portfolio :: Work in progress! This section of the website is still undergoing a bit of an overhaul!! Due to excessive downtime this is unlikely to happen ...

Severn Solutions Portfolio :: Tudor Farmhouse Hotel

Redevelopment of flash based website to meet British accessibility requirements of the Disability and Discriminations Act for the Tudor Farmhouse.

Severn Solutions Portfolio :: Rubicon Solutions UK

Content-intesive website powered by single user content management system built for Rubicon Solutions UK.

2 Bedroom Seaside Flat for Sale, Aberystwyth. Change your lifestyle!

A 2nd and 3rd floor maisonette for sale in a glorious location, overlooking Aberystwyth Harbour and the sea. It is adjacent to a Coastal Nature Reserve and ...

Severn Solutions Portfolio :: Forest Adventure Automated Booking ...

Custom built Client Booking System powered by MS Access backend with a VBA API.

Severn Solutions Enquiry Form

Severn Solutions Enquiry Form. Accessible and Standards Based Solutions. If you would like to discuss requirements for a web development project please ...

Accessible DHTML

Accessible DHTML. 20th February 2004 Updated 24th January 2005. In this short article, I am going to discuss one method of creating DHTML that is accessible ...

Severn Solutions Portfolio :: Emptiness Of Emptiness

Emptiness Of Emptiness • isempty.co.uk. Three screenshots of the same document tree displayed with different CSS and DOM scripts ...

CSS Any Order Columns - aka Holy Grail :: Tom Wright

PIE has published what they arguing is the Holy Grail of CSS designs - fixed width sides and liquid centre. The techniques look familiar, in that they are!

Plastic Fantastic KDE :: Tom Wright

A quick recollection of my first experience with KDE version 3.4 after several months of disatisfaction with the Fink binary of version 3.1.

Automating X11 Rootless Mode :: Tom Wright

Just a little tip to automatically switch to rootless mode in X11 using the plutil command...

Timewatch Kills the Wave :: Tom Wright

While I had high expectations for a rigorous and hotly contested debate on the cause of the 1606/07 Great Flood in Timewatch's The Killer Wave on Friday ...

2004 Weather Recordings :: Tom Wright

The Weather Centre Archives have been updated with daily temperature and pressure readings for 2004, as well as an overhaul of the underlying API with a ...

PHP Session Management :: Tom Wright

I have rarely been content with session management in PHP. Since the web is stateless, a session must be maintained on a login site.

PHP Function Lookup from XEmacs :: Tom Wright

With XEmacs becoming my editor of choice on the IBook, I wanted to set up function lookup for PHP major mode from a local copy of the PHP documentation.

Google Search History :: Tom Wright

Picked up from Search Engine Watch that Google has just rolled out a beta My Search History.

Longwave, The History of Bore Surfing :: Tom Wright

This year is the 50th anniversary of Tidal Bore Surfing, and to coincide with the planned events for September, the eagerly awaited Longwave has finally ...

Inexplicable Takeover :: Tom Wright

This week the MySQL server on my Windows platform was taken over by Outpost Firewall! In short, I could not connect to the server until Outpost had been ...

Surfing in the Jungle :: Tom Wright

In a week from now I will be preparing for my first encounter with the Mearim pororoca in Maranhao state on the south eastern rim of the Amazon rain forest.

Trendalicious :: Tom Wright

Trendalicious provides a nice way to keep in touch with the most popular pages on del.icio.us.

Severn Bore World Surfing Record :: Tom Wright

There has been far to much media coverage of Steve's recent record-breaking ride on the Severn Bore and thanks to a single press release by the Press ...

AWOL Explained :: Tom Wright

Not been much time to blog recently with all out of hours preoccupied with my newly acquired Apple Ibook.

Map MySQL Data to new Schema :: Tom Wright

Here is a little script to map a set of records from one mysql table to another - I found a need for this when I recently updated the schema for the ...

Verify Sudo in Script Execution :: Tom Wright

Shell script to verify a command has been run with superuser privileges using the sudo command, specifically to ensure I do not forget to use sudo when ...

Multiple Firefox Profiles OSX :: Tom Wright

Recently started using Firefox again on my iBook. First thing I wanted to do was set up those multiple profiles so I could have an extension testing profile ...

Google Implements XMLHTTPRequest :: Tom Wright

Google Suggest Beta is a new search tool implementing MSXML and XMLHTTPRequest to provide suggestions for the search terms entered.

One Up For National Express :: Tom Wright

Dismayed by the lack of rail service to London in February and total absence of Apex tickets, I decided to check out National Express instead to discover ...

Back but only briefly :: Tom Wright

It has been a whole month without blogging! A very stretched month with vital deadlines to reach before I head off on my travels to the Brazilian jungle.

Resequence a MySQL column :: Tom Wright

A solution for column resequencing using the PHP API for MySQL, and an equivalent method with SQL.

Super Simulation in Javascript OOP :: Tom Wright

Writing some Javascript the other day I found myself wanting to override a method of an object's prototypical object while still having access to the ...

Brief Blogging Update :: Tom Wright

Not been able to blog recent months due to other commitments. Also have decided to close the comments submissions on this site due to ever increasing ...

In Memory Of Samwise Gamgee :: Tom Wright

The wait is finally over, and I have seen those tender last minutes of The Two Towers - last Christmas the Odean dramatically ground to a halt just as ...

The Great Flood of 1606 :: Tom Wright

An attempt to disprove the hypothesis that a historical tsunami was the cause of the Great Flood of 1606/1607 as purported in a recent Times article in the ...

Sony DAV Home Cinema :: Tom Wright

Beyond work, I have been a little distracted for the last few days thanks to a new Sony DAV Home Cinema kit. So finally I have joined the exciting world of ...

Surfing the Pororoca :: Tom Wright

As the memories of our adventure on the Pororoca beign to fade it is time to note a few of the high points from the trip to Arari and the Mearim river to ...

50 Years of Bore Surfing :: Tom Wright

Today is the 50th anniversary of Mad Jack Churchills first surf on the River Severn Tidal Bore. A celebration will be held at the White Hart Inn on 17th ...

CSS Snippets Volume 1 :: Tom Wright

Just noting a couple of useful CSS2 selectors (Standards UAs) and another IE hack to fix rendering: Binding CSS behaviour of an explicit label and the ...

What's on the Playlist :: Tom Wright

Last year Wishbone Ash's Argus dominated my playlist, this year looks like it will be a retrospective to Barclay James Harvest.

Amaya Goes OSX Native :: Tom Wright

Yes, the Amaya team at the W3C just released the first native version for OS X last week. As well as a smooth aqua facade, all the build tools for XML ...

Brainbench Games Winner :: Tom Wright

Having previously slipped my mind, just followed up on the recent Brainbench games results to discover I got the top score for Web Design for Accessibility, ...

Shell Scripting :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Shell Scripting. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign John Stuart Mill ...

Flaming Fireballs :: Tom Wright

I have just seen my first fireball, and it was so exciting I had to jot this down. Only popped outside for a second, and in the corner of my eye I saw a ...

Surfing the Cribbar :: Tom Wright

The BBC has some excellent photos from the epic swell that hit the south west of the UK on December 9th. Quite probably the most impressive waves I have ...

M$ Office Worth Every Penny!? :: Tom Wright

Nothing like a full days work on a tedious Access database only to finally discover a destructable bug on not compiling imported code.

Browsers :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Browsers. Words are but the images of matter, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture Francis Bacon ...

Accessibility :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Accessibility. Art raises its head when religions relax their hold Friedrich Nietzsche. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7. 1 - 5 [31] ...

SEO :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for SEO. What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence Ludwig Wittgenstein. 1 | 2 | 3. 1 - 5 [14] ...

We know where you are :: Tom Wright

My weblog is now geotagged. ... TW Blog :: Archives for January 2005. What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence Ludwig Wittgenstein ...

XUL :: TW Blog

Choosing Firefox Extensions. Also relates to Firefox and Co. This post is now out dated. I have posted a similar posting relating to Firefox 1.0PR and my ...

Into The Danger Zone :: Tom Wright

Our spring excursion to the Pororoca seems to have found its way into the danger zone article in the latest issue of Carve alongside Puerto Escondido and ...

Movies :: TW Blog

Surround Sound Experience with DTS. This post does not relate to any other topics. This afternoon I chose to watch a film on my Sony D AV offering a DTS ...

Surfing the Mearim Outer Banks :: Tom Wright

The outer banks holds the largest Pororoca on the Mearim river and has been observed at four metres. We scored it at about 2.5m, and just by luck I managed ...

Surround Sound Experience with DTS :: Tom Wright

Today I watched Master and Commander with the DTS sound track - up until this point I had only been viewing in Dolby Digital.

DOM Scripting :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for DOM Scripting. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards Soren Kierkegaard. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5. 1 - 5 [21] ...

PHP :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for PHP. The value and worth of a man is, as of all things, his price Thomas Hobbes. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5. 1 - 5 [21] ...

UNIX :: TW Blog

Verify Sudo in Script Execution. Also relates to Apache and OSX. Earlier I was setting up a couple of shell scripts to allow me to quickly switch between ...

Firefox and Co :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Firefox and Co. Man alone of all beings, when addressed by the voice of Being, experiences the marvel of all marvels: that what-is is ...

Security :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Security. What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence Ludwig Wittgenstein. 1 | 2. 1 - 5 [8] ...

Syndicate MSN Search Beta :: Tom Wright

MSN Search is currently experimenting with syndicated search results by providing an RSS version of their SERPs.

Star Gazing :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Star Gazing. There is nothing more objective than the laws of arithmetic Gottlob Frege. 1. 1 - 2 [2] ...

Oscar Whitewash :: Tom Wright

What a night to finally see Peter Jackson's epic get the glory it deserves taking a 100% clean sweep of eleven Oscars against such an excellent collection ...

XML Schema :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for XML Schema. Words are but the images of matter, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture Francis Bacon ...

XForms :: TW Blog

Open Office 2.0 Arrives. Also relates to Open Source and The Office. Finally after two months absence from the blogging circuit, I finally see something ...

Open Source :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Open Source. The whole of Science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking Albert Einstein ...

COM :: TW Blog

PHP COM for Outlook to Access. Also relates to PHP and Basic. I had an urgency earlier today to produce a script to extract details from the body of a ...

Rainbow for Auction :: Tom Wright

Have just noticed the old Still Stoked camper is up for auction.

Cat-man-do :: Tom Wright

Most river rider names seem set in stone. My own nomenclature seems to be in constant flux - meet cat-man-do.

New Distance Surfing World Record :: Tom Wright

Our Brazilian river surfing buddy Sergio Laus broke the world record for distance surfing on Friday with a ride of 10.1km on the Araguari Pororoca in Amapa ...

IDEs :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for IDEs. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants Isaac Newton. 1. 1 - 5 [5] ...

Classic Ice Cream Delivery :: Tom Wright

Recently at my mate Dom's wedding we saw the unveiling of his inlaws vintage 1950 Morris J Type Commercial Ice Cream Van. Quite impressive and a great ...

Surfing :: TW Blog

Surfing in the Jungle. This post does not relate to any other topics. Exactly a week from now I will be lieing on a bed in the town of Arari on the southern ...

Music :: TW Blog

What's on the Playlist. Also relates to Nostalgia. If it isn't enough that I subject the world, beyond these four walls, to my sporadic outbursts, ...

Greatest Philosopher? :: Tom Wright

BBC's In Our Time is currently running a the Philosopher Vote to establish the greatest philosopher of all time.

Mytob - More Doom? :: Tom Wright

All my principle mail boxes have been hit quite hard by the MyDoom mass mailing worm variant MytobB in the last 48 hours.

X11 :: TW Blog

Automating X11 Rootless Mode. Also relates to OSX. Many of the applications I use on a daily basis come from the KDE toolkit or other X11 software most ...

Hanging out in Sao Luis :: Tom Wright

We are now sitting in a very hot Sao Luis, just south of the Equator in Maranhao state, Brazil. Only a day to go and the Pororoca will be roaring…

XP Security on Broadband :: Tom Wright

If you are using a default copy of Windows XP on broadband this is essential reading regarding security, Service Pack 2 and firewalls.

Open Office 2.0 Arrives :: Tom Wright

It has taken a big announcement to drag me back from two months absence on the blogging circuit. And the release of Open Office 2.0 is certainly something ...

MySQL :: TW Blog

Map MySQL Data to new Schema. Also relates to PHP. Recently I rewrote the schema for several modules in the hand-rolled CMS I use. ...

DOS :: TW Blog

PHP 5 On Demand. Also relates to PHP and Apache. For all its anachronistic tendencies, my Windows 98 test platform is surprisingly robust when a new ...

Basic :: TW Blog

M$ Office Worth Every Penny!? Also relates to The Office. Nothing like a full day of work on an Access database only to be told:. Error accessing file. ...

PEAR :: TW Blog

Resequence a MySQL column. Also relates to MySQL. The other day I was asked if I knew a way to resequence a column in a My SQL table. ...

Latest WCAG Working Drafts :: Tom Wright

The latest batch of WCAG working drafts were made public yesterday: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Client Side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0, ...

NGS Magazine RSS Feed :: Tom Wright

I have just discovered, a little late I might add, that National Geographic now provides an RSS feed with excerpts from the latest magazine.

Science :: TW Blog

Timewatch Kills the Wave. Also relates to Meteorology. While I had high expectations for a rigorous and hotly contested debate on the cause of the 1606/07 ...

The Pororoca Experience :: Tom Wright

Well our trip to the Pororoca on Mearim is over. No time to post the adventure now, since still in Sao Luis, but here are some pics and an article by ...

The Office :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for The Office. The real is the rational, and the rational is the real Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ...

Surf and Travel :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Surf and Travel. When we think the present as going to be, it exists not yet; and when we think it as existing, it is already past ...

Test Post : Trackback Added :: Tom Wright

This is just a test to see if the new trackback module is working on the live server…

Gangs Of New York :: Tom Wright

Wow, just watched Gangs of New York and what a film it is! Phenomenal cinematography and atmosphere in a really brutal world of meat cleavers and razor ...

Philosophy :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Philosophy. It is one thing to show a man he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth John Locke ...

Peregrinations :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Peregrinations. The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5. 1 - 5 [21] ...

Registry Hacks :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Registry Hacks. Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy Gautama Buddha. 1. 1 - 2 [2] ...

Web Standards :: TW Blog

Amaya Goes OSX Native. Also relates to Browsers. Yes, the Amaya team at the W3C just released the first native version of Amaya Web Browser for OS X last ...

Blogging :: TW Blog

TW Blog :: Entries for Blogging. What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence Ludwig Wittgenstein. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4. 1 - 5 [16] ...