Again! What is this guy on? Aesthetics mostly.

1. A colour scheme and style more pleasing to my eye
2. My certifications are now displayed on the summary page

Hmm… perhaps a version number is in order? Further changes to the on-line dive log.

1. External links now have optional titles, which appear as tool-tips
2. Fishes now have external links and links to FishBase where the scientific name is given

A flurry of activity on the job seeking front. Today saw two promising contacts from agents, one of whom, bless her, gave me feedback on improving my CV. Taking that advice on board and with Liberta’s help, bless her, I now have a minimal, punchy, to-the-point CV guaranteed to get me highly remunerated employment. Or my money back, she says. I’m hopeful!

Two major changes to the on-line dive log.

1. I can put external links against people and places e.g. dive 32 on the SS Yongala. Click the » to link to a relevant page. I’m still working on entering the actual links into the database though!
2. Although I don’t have any pictures, the U/W Pictures page now at least lists the marine life I have logged and on which dives.

I’ve done a lot of refactoring on the code which has been fun and has taught me a lot about PHP, a tool for which I have increasing admiration. I am also endebted to the original developers of the dive log, terong.com, whom I wholeheartedly thank for producing such a wonderful base on which to build. I hope that they will choose to incorporate some of my work or ideas into their future releases.

I plan to spend some time adding links to my log before making further changes to the code.

My next task is to adapt the visuals of the dive log to better match my blog. Time for all that studying of CSS2 to pay off. I plan to add links against marine life and dive courses. There’s some minor polishing left also.

Beyond that I’m not sure. But it’s the web. Somebody will think of something. I welcome suggestions.

We have broadband again. Such relief. Many thanks to the fine, upstanding people at Telewest BlueYonder. Now all we need is a router so Liberta can use it too .

Update @ 19:30: I duly acquired a Belkin wireless-g router from PC World at a very good price – 40 quid.

We have a home – a small terraced house in the S5 area of Sheffield. After a weekend of diving in in Lancashire (well, Liberta dived, I just grumbled) and a nightmare journey back here, we were faced with moved in to a house that was empty but for carpets and gas cooker. Thanks to a couple of friends for letting us borrow some bedding.

Now the scramble begins to add all the necessary services, such as broadband.

I’ve not been totally idle over the past few weeks. I’ve been chipping away at the web dive log software, gradually improving the administration interface and front-end until now. I’m happy with the results and ready to share them.

Units are now shown in both metric and imperial. Dives have notes against them.

Have a look!

Buggeration. No success with either of the interviews I attended. The second was a disaster. I completely misinterpreted what type of programmer the firm were looking for. My skills were not appropriate and so I failed the test set for me. That was a little embarrassing but educational.

I’m going to aim higher from now on.

We may not be homeless from this weekend, hopefully.