Today is JLSNet’s 2nd Birthday! Some current site stats… 69 pages, ~2000 visitors each month, 4 makeovers, site referenced in 2 technical papers (other than my 2!), 1 Marmite poll, Google PageRanking of 3/10, 48 site news entries, designed for support on IE and Firefox, has raised $76.26 from Google Ads and had 2 ISP’s. Some news headlines from the birth date of the site… US launch first missiles against Saddam Hussein, many protest and march against war on Iraq. Most distant black hole weighed - it weighs in at one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) times that of the Earth. Scientists develop a cheap and safe way to detect smuggled nuclear material using cosmic rays. UK house prices have dropped for the first time in two years and the fall is the largest since 1995. The Ganda worm spreads by taking advantage of public interest in the war against Iraq. 2 years! oh, that reminds me the .co.uk domain renewal must be soon!

“Yes, the american troops have advanced further. This will only make it easier for us to defeat them” –Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf

It has taken a year but one of the other sites I work on, www.langstonechurch.com, is at a state I am happy with. This is the website for the church I belong to and features up-to-date news, church information and, something which I am very proud of, a very classy diary! I may have spent just a little too much time working on this site and I am having to restrict myself a little now, as it does not bring in any money!

“Linux rules but its not for fools!” –Unknown

JLSNet has been a little neglected over the last few months, I have been a bit busy working on other websites, trying to find jobs, getting offered jobs, turning down jobs and then trying to find jobs again! Although some good has come out of my working on other sites… I am learning a great deal more about the power of using CSS and DIV’s on web pages. The basic rule is “Don’t use tables for layout!” and so JLSNet has had yet another makeover - simpler, cleaner and no tables!

“Computer terminals report some gains in the values of copper and tin While American businessmen snap up Van Gogh’s for the price of a hospital wing. And nothing ever happens Nothing happens at all. The needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing all along like before.” –Del Amitri, Song: Nothing Ever Happens