It’s now been nearly 5 months since the official launch of IE8 (and just as long since I last posted a blog entry) and there has been some positive movement in the browser wars according to the PropertyPal.com usage statistics. This time last year IE6 users made up approximately 27% and now 12 months later [...]
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Why Internet Explorer 8 is Just Another Headache
It’s the 20th March 2009 and yesterday Microsoft released the latest version of its web browser Internet Explorer 8. For website developers, when Microsoft releases a new web browser this can bring great joy but also great pain because often the new version fixes all the annoying problems with the old one but creates a [...]
Cisco VPN Client on 64bit Windows
I decided to write this post after a year of trying to find a solution to connecting to my work Cisco VPN on my Windows Vista running the 64 bit version of the OS. I am a Firewall/VPN novice and after struggling to find a solution for so long I felt that anyone else out [...]
365 Day Photo Journal
Me and beckie have just got ourselves a nice new Digital SLR, I have been interested in photography for some time and have owned a film SLR since I was about 14. However since I got a compact digital camera, I had completely stopped using the SLR all together. Reviewing my photos over the last [...]
Well, it wasn’t a total disaser
Well, the weekend in London at the Race of Champions wasn’t a total disaster but it was quite eventful. It all started out badly, we got on the train to London, only to sit there for 2 hours and only manage to travel 5 miles then the train was cancelled. We got back to the [...]
Race Of Champions This Weekend
Me and Beckie are off to the Race of Champions this weekend, we are heading down to london on the train on saturday and staying in the Copthorn Tara hotel on Saturday and Sunday night. The driver lineup hasnt yet been filled but today ROC organisers announced the replacement for Team Australia’s Mark Webber who [...]
Hello World
Hi, my name is Andrew Murdoch (or Andy) if you prefer and this is my first post on my new website. I am a website and software developer living in Birmingham and I have owned www.andrewmurdoch.com (and andrewmurdoch.co.uk) for several years now and done absolutely nothing with them so I thought it was about time [...]