I don't really find a lot of time to update Mauveweb and Mauvesoft these days. What with working all day every day doing web design, it's hard to find the enthusiasm for doing more unpaid web design in my spare time. I find I prefer to spend time programming or experimenting with new ideas and technology.

One of the things that I have done, however, is set up a blog to record many of my doodlings. I detest blogs that contain rubbish about people's day-to-day lives and experiences, but I do read tech blogs. So mine is one of those, largely focused on web design because that's what I am most knowledgable about.

So here it is: my blog, From Accessibility to Zope.

Thought it was about time to revamp Mauveweb. First things first: we have a new logo.

The old one continues to live here.

Mauvesoft Gallery has been tweaked for release and is now available for download.

Also I finally got around to killing off all the spam on my guestbook.

Finally please check out my tribute to my favourite noodle bar, Dojo's in Cambridge.

2Ton has been updated and there are now Win32 builds and sources available which should compile under all SDL platforms.

Thanks to Phil Dadd for compiling the sources for Win32 while my Windows machine is broken.

I uploaded a huge number of Qeez updates about three weeks back, but I forgot to put anything here.

I'm currently working on my photo gallery, and I'm developing a support/knowledge base thing because it's needed at my Dad's office. There it'll just have some WinXP support in it, but here it'll be open to people to put whatever technical knowledge in that they like. That's to say that instead of helping people out repeatedly with the same kind of things, I'll just post my help to the knowledge base and point people at it on subsequent occasions.

We have a new hosted site on Mauveweb: kismet.mauveweb.co.uk. It's the site of a friend of mine whose web host was being rubbish, so he's here now.

Because he's hosted with me now, he's using my photo gallery script, so I've been working on that to bring it up to an acceptable quality. I will make it available for download soon.

I have a few new bits and pieces of software which I will also put up when I get round to it. One is something a bit special in Java, so make sure you have the latest JRE installed.

I also put a version of my naval game demo up a couple of weeks ago; it's work in progress and it isn't very fast on most graphics cards, but it will be eventually. Comments would be appreciated.

We have a new addition to the Mauveweb network: Mauvewap. Point your WAP phone at wap.mauveweb.co.uk.

There's not much content there, and it's unlikely there will ever be, but that's where you'll find my Java MIDP games.

I did continue to work on it, and I've added a picture gallery to Mauveweb, and I've added all-new friend reviews.

Both can be found on the 'Homepage' section of Mauveweb.

I have to apologise because Mauvesoft front page was down last week. It seems I overwrote the index.php when I was playing with the Delameriser. Then I went skiing for a week, so I only fixed it when I got back. Thanks to jest for pointing it out.

Just added a photo gallery that I've been working on. Also, Qeez should work a lot faster because it's compressing HTML.

I'll continue to work on this website over the weekend so there might be more updates to come.

Oh, in case you missed out, the 2Ton site has been up for a while now.

I've recently taken up using Mozilla over IE. I have been a fan of IE for quite a long time, but IE hasn't kept up - it basically hasn't changed since IE4. I now can enjoy progressive JPEGs, correctly progressive PNGs and PNG alpha support, tabbed browsing and so on and so forth.

Chatzilla is crap though. In prinicple, it would be nice to have a good IRC client integrated with your browser, but alas, is currently rubbish.

Anyway, as a result, I have been making my pages look more the way they were intended under Mozilla.

As a general message to the kind of non-techy people who don't already know this, Microsoft software really isn't very good. If you actually try out the competition from time to time, you will often be pleasantly surprised.

Plum is up, rewritten, documented, and available for you to download (on Mauvesoft)

If you'd like to peer into my past, you can see what I did aged 15 (on Mauveweb)

I added a guestbook to Mauvenet. The book is shared between both sites. I was in half a mind to pull my forum out of Qeez, but it's a lot of hassle to register to use it and it would have been almost as difficult as writing a guestbook from scratch.

I didn't post it here but I added an Art section to Mauveweb on Sunday.

I've spent a while putting bits of old Mauveweb back online, and sorting out a few links to my friends' sites.

Finally got the DNS for the sites sorted out. I've uploaded lots of the stuff I have done, much of which is completely new, but some has been recycled from my old SRCF webpages. Please bear with me as I fill in the content for these sites - I don't indend to keep that under construction logo (rendering in 3D Studio Max, in case you're interested) there for very long, and I mean it in an it's-not-going-to-stay-like-this-for-long way rather than an under-construction-indefinitely way.

However, I have put in a bunch of headings for which I don't yet have sites. I hope to bring you these in the near future. I might be working on them right now :)