Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

The gold and bronze skies of a summer sunset in Putney.

Putney, London
August 2007

Here's an interesting tree map graph of this page's structure, mapping the HTML that makes up everything you can see. Go here to make your own. The nodes are colour coded as follows:

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Quite fascinating. I obviously have quite a complex template in play! That and the tables I occasionally use...

Original linkage from Chris Green

The Jeffster surveys his domain.

Putney, London
August 2007

747 on finals for Heathrow, flying into another golden summer sunset.

The photograph was taken from our roof in East Putney.

Putney, London
August 2007

...a rant about the abomination that is the BBC iPlayer.

I'll hold my hand up and admit it. I thought the BBC iPlayer was going to be a good idea. I wasn't too fussed about the DRM - the regulatory environment the BBC has to work with wouldn't have let it do anything else. All I wanted was a way to watch my favourite shows on a laptop halfway over the Atlantic.

I got on the the beta last week, along with pretty much everyone who'd signed up. I should have given up as soon as I got the convoluted installation instructions in my email. Go to this site, enter this password, download this application, go back to download a program, install an ActiveX control, start again, and then wait for the slowest P2P download ever to deliver a copy of Top Gear to my hard disk. Oh, and then not to get the right licenses so I couldn't actually watch the programme I'd downloaded. No Jeremy and No Star in Moderately Priced Car for me...

Read more at IT Pro.

And another thing - enough with the letter "i-" prefixing everything that's meant to work with internet. It was cute with the iMac, but that was 1998. I thought we'd learnt our lesson last bubble with "e-" this that and the other...

Foot-and-mouth back in the UK.