The perfect set of widgets

The widgets I’m referring to are those you can find on Wordpress.com. So many widgets, so little time. Just which ones do you pick to make very best use of the opportunities that arise. I can’t make my mind up between displaying pages or not, having a category cloud or a category widget (I’ve gone for the later incidentally). The problem is that each widget you use makes your page longer and longer, that’s not a problem on the home page as I display my most recent 10 posts, but when a reader visits a page like this, then there’s an awful lot of white space at the bottom of the page.

Genetics by design

People come in many shapes and sizes and in one of two genders (normally), but until now they’ve never been ‘designer’ – that is they may well wear designer clothes, carry designer handbags (my one vice I have to admit!) or even be a ‘designer’ (for the web, graphics, fashion etc…. ), but designer baby…….. [...]

Black holes and house prices

If the scientists at CERN have anything to do with anything, shortly we may not need to worry about whether there is a recession or that house prices are dropping here in the UK.
They started colliding beams in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time today, the worlds largest particle accelerator designed to test [...]

Chairs and tables

Why is a chair called a chair and why is a table called a table?  These are questions that regularly tax my mind into answering and I still have never been given an adequate answer to the question.
Yes, I know it is all about language and the development of syntax and other long words I [...]