The Welsh Assembly hasn’t grasped the possibilities of RSS (or Atom) syndication. Although sites like AssemblyOnline have been providing RSS feeds of the Welsh Assembly media briefings and forum postings for some time, it seems the Welsh Assembly itself thinks you aren’t quite ready for it. Here’s what they say:
Most of Microsoft’s .NET examples are in VB and C#. For anyone looking for a JScript example of data access using SqlConnection rather than conventional ASP data access, here we are.
// get the connection string from the config file
Traghetti are the boats used to ferry people across the Grand Canal for €0.8. Catch them from the well-signposted jetties and stand up as you are taken across.
The ripples in the building on the right aren’t a JPEG artifact - it’s a printed cover stretched over some building work.
The HTML <link> tag can be used any number of times in the <head> element to define document relationships.
Perhaps the best-known example of the <link rel=”…” > construction is the reference to a stylesheet:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css" type="text/css" />
but another use, now very common, is to declare the documents that provide the syndication feeds, either RSS or Atom, for the current page:
Following the Ystrad Meurig Mafia’s attempt to suppress talent here are a few more pics by Helen.
Bird on a beach:
Berries:
A forest
Helen entered the annual Ystrad Meurig (pron. ustraad moirig) Fête’s photo competition. Her photos were mysteriously mislaid and some nonsense from the Aberystwyth Photographic Society took pride of place on the display boards next to the temporary bar inside the humid marquee. The organiser asked, “Oh, you’re a budding photographer, are you?” and Helen didn’t hit her. It’s the usual West Wales nepotism, corruption and patronage of the plain bad.
In a matter of weeks David will get to drive a Buick Century around California. This car (unlike the Micra) has actually been designed for people with legs - it has a six-way power adjustable driver seat, leather-appointed seats and, fortunately for me, a great big passenger air bag. According to the Buick website it also has a CD player.
