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About jardMail

Have you ever had an email from a friend that made you smile, smirk or even laugh out loud, well those are jardMails. We've decided to archive every joke we get on this site, categorize them, index them with a search engine and send the best one out to the jardMail mailing list every week, and unlike a lot of the competition we also archive a number of the attachments.

This whole site is created in our spare time by the jardMail team, this is no commercial, money making, ad filled site. It's just a bit of fun. That said, if anyone does want to send us large amounts of money we're fully prepared to sell out, offers to the usual address ;-).

Thanks to all our friends and visitors who've contributed to this site, we couldn't carry on providing quality new jokes without you! There are too many of you to list individually, but if anyone does want their name up in lights please say so. Except for 'Mr. Hamster' you know who you are, you sick bunny!

Thanks to .net magazine (www.netmag.co.uk) for their invaluable tutorials, examples, free software and a good read once a month. They pointed me to most of the services used on this site (most of them listed and linked below) and saved me a lot of searching and time wasting, well worth a few coins once a month. Thanks also to the various .net mag forum regulars who've helped with the odd problem, as well as staving off the boredom on some of those long days and nights. Not forgetting of course the ex-.Net renegades and rebels at dotdragnet, my new spiritual home.

Of course not forgetting Internet Monthly who made us one of their top 10 sites in November 2000.

Thanks go to Netscape's developer pages for the Add Page to Sidebar script tutorial.

This page is best viewed with your monitor switched on.

This site is designed to be equally viewable and accessible to anyone using a version 4 or better browser, as my logs show that the vast majority of visitors are using version 4+ browsers, this shouldn't be a problem. It has been tested with Netscape Communicator 4.x, MS Internet Explorer 4 & 5 and Mozilla M11-M18, 0.6-0.9.6 and NS 6.x. A small amount of testing has also been done using Netscape 3 and with ProxiWeb 3.5 on my Palm IIIe. It is perfectly accessible on both of these platforms, although as the site uses CSS, it looks a bit primitive on version 3 and below browsers. The site has been designed to download as quickly as possible and look nearly identical on all platforms and browsers, the only exceptions being pre-version 4 browsers where the site will 'degrade gracefully' (you can still see everything and navigate easily, but it's not as pretty), and Netscape 4 which has a couple of small problems with my CSS (just ignores my font style on two occasions, hardly a showstopper, but still annoying for people who use Netscape 4.x as their primary browser).

If you own a Palm III or V I can recommend ProxiWeb as a web browser, it seems to handle just about any web page and convert it to display on the Palm's tiny black-and-white screen, and it even feels fast over the slow net connection given when plugging my Palm IIIe into my Nokia mobile phone.

Created using Araneae, an excellent plain HTML editor, none of that WYSIWYG rubbish! Site search engine powered by Atomz. Mailing list and other miscellaneous services provided by Bravenet. Web counters and stats provided by WebCounter.

jardMail is part of the jard network. The jard network (jard.co.uk, jardMail.co.uk, blatchford.org and BlokeAtBack) is owned, created and designed by James Blatchford. All original graphics and text Copyright © 2000-2002 James Blatchford. Site design Copyright © 2000-2002 James Blatchford.

Anyone who's actually read down this far deserves some kind of reward. Here's another joke:

A drunken man staggers in to a Catholic church and sits down in a confession box and says nothing. The bewildered priest coughs to attract his attention, but still the man says nothing. The priest then knocks on the wall three times in a final attempt to get the man to speak.

Finally, the drunk replies: "No use knockin' mate, there's no paper in this one either."

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