So the other day I wrote a Javascript go board.

I had four things I wanted to do today. I've done two of them and I've started on the third but I'm probably too tired to actually finish it. Unfortunately, the third is the one that I actually have to do today, my sermon for Sunday. So what have I been doing instead? Um, well, messing with Javascript, actually. (OK, I also spent some time helping a local evangelism group learn how to improve their Internet communication, and I spent the afternoon with the old guys in the local community center, so it wasn't a complete messing-about day. But there certainly was some messing-about in it.)

People using Songbee - by the way, please email me, so I know that there actually are some - particularly those using Songbee on Windows, should upgrade to version 1.1, released today. Get it at the usual place. It fixes a few display issues with furigana, and it also gives you a search bar that you can actually see, rather than having to just stab wildly at.

OK, lazyweb, got a question for you.

I send out newsletters by email. I’m part of a team that sends out newsletters by email. I’ve just been asked by a local evangelism organisation to critique the newsletters that they send out via email. I have some ideas of what works, but I could be making all this up, so any further thoughts or disagreements people have would be appreciated. Read more about Email newsletters: Tell me what works and what doesn't

Cor, seems like ages since I wrote a technical article. I mean a proper one, not like the one on Drupal. A decent tutorial. Anyway, here's a new one, all about how to program for the iPhone (and iPod) using Javascript and Jiggy. Enjoy!

When we set up a new web site for our field team, we decided to use a technology called Joomla. This was apparently the organisation-wide standard, and we bought into this lie, for all the wrong reasons. Read more about Migrating Joomla to Drupal

So I just enjoyed my first YAPC::Asia! It was good to see some of the old crowd again, both Japanese and foreigner, and also to see the huge interest in Perl from newer faces as well. Although I was not expecting to find the talks interesting - the less programming I do, the more I feel out of these things - there was a lot of good stuff on.

Since I had all this time on my hands, I thought I'd have a quick look at how Parrot has been getting on in the six years of my absence.

Today it is so cold that I am doing all I can to stop myself from declaring the day over, and curling up in bed with the fan heater and the electric blanket and a half-dozen other blankets on top. And it's only six pm. This is not good.

Looks like I found a perfect approach to combatting comment spam…