HUBBERS BLOG

I am sold a David Hasselhoff beermat on Ebay. My boss picked it up for nothing at a pub and gave to me. There was a lot of early interest and bidding finally reached a massive £1.

SELF PROMOTION

To promote the beermat I put it on Digg and my flatmate even put it on Wikipedia! But it didn’t last long :(

WAS IT ALL WORTH IT?

Of the £1 that the beermat sold for Ebay took 20p and PayPal, who are owned by Ebay, took another 24p. So I only ended up with 56p because greedy Ebay stole 44 percent or my profit. Dogs.

Today I finally finished upgrading my blog so that all of the entries are now coded in 100% valid W3C approved semantically correct XHTML.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Well if people build internet site to accepted international standards and browser companies build their browsers to correctly read standardised code then everything will work correctly. And nobody gets hurt.

The upgrade involved two steps. Step One was to fix the XHTML template and CSS issued by Blogger.com. Step two simply involved going through my 270+ blog entries and adding the correct semantic XHTML tags. This has only taken half a year or so.

What is next?

Next I plan to fix the spelling and grammar. Estimated completion date: 2027.