Found out on Wednesday that the planning permission that our neighbours had rejected in 2000 was actually approved on appeal to the secretary of state. Now (Thursday evening) the building in their back garden has already gone – to be replaced by two houses.

We are philosophical about this, but it would be nice to have known about this in 2001 – especially as the council said that they would inform us.

The weird thing about their back lot with no building is this increase in noise and the improvement in the view. We can see the church from our garden now, but I suspect this view will not remain after the houses go up.

So, we aim to get the windows facing our garden put in to frosted glass. We also aim to get the new window that they propose removed or made frosted glass. Our neighbours will change from a gym/office to four houses. Is that bad or good? Not really sure yet, but you cannot stop progress.

Feeling deeply grumpy today. We’d booked Sky to install Sky+ in a shameless move to enhance Murdoch’s millions. The installer came, walked around on the roof with cat-like agility and couldn’t get near our dish. It is in a very awkward place – I have no idea how the guys who put it up got up there – I guess it is a two man job. Anyway. Murdoch loses some money, and we revert to plan A – keeping the status quo. Annoyingly we had a crane up to that very chimney two weeks ago to install the chimney lining. Bah humbug. No live TV pausing for me then. I had thought that even if you cannot get up to the dish I would get the Sky+ box, but apparently it needs TWO aerial leads in to it.

The only way I can think to get near the dish properly is to get a “proper” scaffolder to tower up, but that seems overkill. At least it would protect the tiles. Either that or I wait until Sky come up witha hard disk recording box that only neads one lead in – surely you can split a satellite aerial signal in this day and age?

Day 26: Using relative font sizes – Dive Into Accessibility It is such fun seeing how all browsers are different in the way that they handle CSS (and the ways to get around this with stylsheet tweaks. No idea if this works…)

Later – it does work. Included a version of this code in the tool I have been developing for work.

BBC SPORT | Cricket | England A slump to defeat. Is Simon Jones ready for the West Indies after having figures of 0 for 89 off 14 overs?

Ah, the fickel nature of the great game. Jones’ figures – 2 overs 3-3! Perhaps he prefers Caribbean wickets.

I saw this story about an ATM Card Cloning setup on slashdot. Makes you think that you should be more careful when using a cashpoint!