Bruce Lawson’s personal site

isn’t very good, according to Google’s analysis of 1 billion pages.
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This post is obsolete. See post-launch report instead.

The long-awaited PAS 78 from the British Standards Institute and Disability Rights Commission will be released on March 8th. It’s the first formal guide to commissioning accessible websites, and is pitched at business people.
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I don’t usually do these meme things (cos they’re just geekspeak for “Chain Letter” to show that we’re not the AOL hoi-palloi), but John Oxton tagged me and he’s a big scary bastard.
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I was honoured to be invited to celebrate the nuptials of Ian Lloyd and Manda Chan, and as I set out for Swindon with shaved chin and a tie round my neck, Nongyow cryptically said “every English guy should marry a South-East Asian girl”.

Now, Lloyd’s a nice-looking lad - and he scrubbed up well - but Manda looked absolutely stunning and he is indeed a lucky bugger. It was a good bash, too - lots of gorgeous bridesmaids, nice grub with some Asian dishes (wonton and satay; I’m not still on about Manda’s cousins) and good contingent of geeks: Chris McEvoy, Simon Willison, Tim Parkin, Drew McLellan and Rachel Andrew.

Congratulations to the Lloyds. May all your troubles be little ones (tee hee).

ps: To the Ibis Hotel in Swindon: it is criminal to try to charge £5 for a sachet of Nescafé, a bowl of tinned grapefruit segments and a croissant. And not having proper coffee at breakfast is barbarism.

pps: Word to Swindon council: your town has way too many dual carriageways and roundabouts. It even confused my new SatNav. If I were you, I’d do an insurance job: torch the place, collect the insurance money and build a new town. Bung me a few bob, and I’ll do it for you.

I was writing an epically dull post on web standards when I noticed that Molly had written about her top three love songs and just had to rant.

Yes, Nick Drake’s “Brighten My Northern Sky” is a great song, but Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”?!?!?! Eric Clapton??? Eric Clapped-out, more like.
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A lot of people dislike Friday 13th, but as my birthday is the 13th November, it’s been inevitable that some of those have been Fridays - and they’ve always been splendid. In fact, every Friday 13th has been good for me … except Friday 13th January 1995, which shall forever haunt my nightmares …
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Well, I can’t afford South By South West as air fares are out of the question, so it’s a choice between @media 2006 which has a great line up of speakers (including Gez Lemon and Patrick Lauke - yay!) and Jeremy Keith’s Ajax workshop. It’s a bloody hard choice.
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