So it seems that the world and his dog have a blog, or some other equally pointless method of letting people who don't really care know about the irrelevant minutiae of their life (don't get me started on twitter). With this is mind, I've just set one up too.

However I don't intend to use it to broadcast information about how fascinating or otherwise my life is, but more as just somewhere to store various bits of information that I have sporadic need of, look up, and then next time I need it have forgotten both what it was and where I found it the first time. I don't expect anyone to read this except for me, and that is probably just as well. I've even given it a cunning url: http://aeparker.com/blog.

I've been looking for a good travel map for a while now, to show which countries I have visited. This one isn't perfect, but is the best I have found so far.

I make quite heavy use of certain CSS3 features on this site, such as border-radius and box-shadow to put nice curved corners, 3D shadow effect borders around images (see e.g. photos). Naturally no version of Internet Explorer supports this as it is generally rubbish. My advice then? If you want to see something pretty get a proper browser such as Firefox or Chrome.