beatnic - just wondering

• The DIY Guide to Roasting Your Own Coffee! on Squidoo
  (tags: coffee beans roasting diy coffeebeans)
• A List Apart: Articles: How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
  “Many managers simply don’t understand why some website require a substantial maintenance staff—and this can lead to chronic understaffing. Overcoming this attitude is among the greatest challenges to be faced by a web team; with luck, the principles
  (tags: web maintenance people teamsize)
• Building my rebooted:bbc.co.uk homepage - currybetdotnet -
  Martin Belam summarises the steps he took in designing his entry for reboot.bbc.co.uk. From the must haves to the launch party. Very useful and interesting.
  (tags: homepageredesign webdesign design BBC martinbelam)
• 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards
  (tags: standards webdesign myths webstandards)

Going from one child to two is like going from owning a dog to owning a zoo.

PJ O’Rourke

Thanks to Chris Tubb for that!

• Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Improvements in accessibility
  (tags: sharepoint accessibility)
• XStandard: free standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor
  (tags: XStandard free standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor)
• Dive Into Accessibility
  (tags: web accessibility)

I’ve just restarted BMF fitness training in Hyde Park, which I can thoroughly recommend to anyone who likes being shouted at at 7am.

After my first session in over three years this morning I was preparing to cycle the rest of the way in to work when I thought I’d better have a banana to keep the energy levels going.

As I was sorting this out I could see a familiar face coming towards me, also on a bike.

I raised a hand and a smile and shouted “Hi, how’s it going?”

The cyclist coming towards me echoed my “Hi, how’s it going?” with a friendly smile.

Only as he got a little closer did I realise it wasn’t someone I know but Tory leader David Cameron… complete with an England flag flying from the back of his bicycle!

• BMF - National Class Timetable
  (tags: bmf britmilfit keepfit fitness exercise)

• BBC NEWS | Magazine | What’s in a surname - Part 2
  (tags: names surnames socialstatus)

• Powerpramming
  Turns out powerpramming was started by a neighbour.
  (tags: powerpramming eastdulwich postnatal exercise)

My train to Leeds left five minutes early from Long Preston station a couple of weeks ago.

I was lucky, I turned up ten minutes early, so had a five minute wait.

But it must have really annoyed the rail replacement service passengers who were delivered by bus two minutes later thinking they had three minutes to spare.

Thank goodness my family had seen me off on foot were able to let them know so the bus driver could whisk them off to meet the train at Skipton.

Long Preston station has no attendant and no clocks.

When I asked the guard what time we were supposed to have left Long Preston he freely admitted we’d left early. He told me how they get a lot of complaints for running behind time.

I said they’d get a lot more complaints if all the trains were early than if they were late.