Monday, May 12, 2008
Back shortly
Much as I'd like to make more use of my spangley new blog layout, I'm actually off tomorrow on one of these.
Catch you all in a weeks time.
Catch you all in a weeks time.
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In the news
According to this BBC article (plugging one of their own programs), UK homeowners "'favour' price falls". Or, looking at the figures in a slightly less headline grabbing way, 68% would prefer prices to stay the same or rise. So that would be most not preferring price falls then....
Labels: News
Video
Whilst I post a large amount of stuff on here, I don't very often go back at a later point for another look. Some things however are worth going back later to check on. Take the following person for example - a man with a tendency to quote himself. I linked to him back in September 2006 and there is some nice new content on his site. The quotes section is especially great (one reminds me of The Sphinx and the one about being defeated is just obvious...)
I'm not going to link to his website however watch the following and if you like what you see, I'm sure it won't be hard to find for yourself.
I'm not going to link to his website however watch the following and if you like what you see, I'm sure it won't be hard to find for yourself.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Animation
Done
Well, almost. As you can see I finally managed to get my act together and get my new template live. It took several hours of trying to get things looking the same in IE6, IE7 and Firefox but this is about as close as I could manage. And it still looks a bit pants in IE6. Meh.
There are problems. After carefully making sure the date perfectly fitted in the little date bar I made, it wasn't until things went live that I realized I'd been using a different - smaller - date format on my test page. Luckily I should be able to sort that out in with CSS rather than having to modify the date format itself. Having switched on 'post pages' (individual web pages for every post I have) and having nigh on 3500 posts now, republishing the whole site takes a while. And when I say a while I mean somewhere between 3-5 hours. So I want to avoid that where possible.
Thanks for the feedback so far - keep it coming. Anything that doesn't work, doesn't look right or you just think is a bit rubbish. Praise also welcome of course. And as Mr Poons says, I have gutted my links a bit but I'm looking at repopulating the blogroll soon but probably not til I get back from holiday next week.
There are problems. After carefully making sure the date perfectly fitted in the little date bar I made, it wasn't until things went live that I realized I'd been using a different - smaller - date format on my test page. Luckily I should be able to sort that out in with CSS rather than having to modify the date format itself. Having switched on 'post pages' (individual web pages for every post I have) and having nigh on 3500 posts now, republishing the whole site takes a while. And when I say a while I mean somewhere between 3-5 hours. So I want to avoid that where possible.
Thanks for the feedback so far - keep it coming. Anything that doesn't work, doesn't look right or you just think is a bit rubbish. Praise also welcome of course. And as Mr Poons says, I have gutted my links a bit but I'm looking at repopulating the blogroll soon but probably not til I get back from holiday next week.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Interwebnet
So my new blog layout is progressing slowly - very slowly. I asked advice from someone with a lot more creative talent and web design skills than me and the advice I got:
Still, it's nice tosteal get inspiration from other sites which is why I've been looking at these. My fave so far is this one.
"I tend to flounder around for ages shuffling images, text, styles and colours until one day they seem to slot into the correct places"Cooo, seems I'm a designer after all as that's what I've spent the last couple of weeks doing.
Still, it's nice to
Labels: Internet
Video
Interesting
Looks like it might be best to stay on the good side of your boss in future or risk being blacklisted.
Labels: Interesting, News
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Video
Now I did a few silly things when I was younger - taping myself on cassette pretending to commentate a horse race or doing Hi-de-Hi impressions spring to mind as a couple of examples. In this digital age however kids need to be a little more careful unless they want to go down in interweb meme history forever....
TURBO!
Speaking of going down.
TURBO!
Speaking of going down.
Big brother and all that
Although the UK may have almost as many CCTV cameras as there are words invented by J. K. Rowling, it's not cutting crime apparently.
Now whilst this may seem like good news for those who don't like having their picture taken 400 times on the way to the corner shop, it's not so good if you actually read the article. Seems to me that Chief Inspector Mick Neville is simply bigging up his new job as head of Viido by issuing a headline grabbing statement. CCTV doesn't work currently as police are too lazy to look through footage and there isn't a(nother) huge database detailing our lives but he's going to fix that! Yay.
Maybe he can give other countries access to this stuff whist he's at it? Or just leave it lying around for anyone to see. Better yet, post it on t'interwebnet.
Now whilst this may seem like good news for those who don't like having their picture taken 400 times on the way to the corner shop, it's not so good if you actually read the article. Seems to me that Chief Inspector Mick Neville is simply bigging up his new job as head of Viido by issuing a headline grabbing statement. CCTV doesn't work currently as police are too lazy to look through footage and there isn't a(nother) huge database detailing our lives but he's going to fix that! Yay.
Maybe he can give other countries access to this stuff whist he's at it? Or just leave it lying around for anyone to see. Better yet, post it on t'interwebnet.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Interesting
I am still about - bank holiday weekend laziness and all that don't you know.
Anyway, should you be planning a holiday anytime soon you may want to avoid some of the following places due to the weird mythical creatures what do live there.
Anyway, should you be planning a holiday anytime soon you may want to avoid some of the following places due to the weird mythical creatures what do live there.
Labels: Interesting, Weird
Friday, May 02, 2008
Weird
Frustrated seal tried to get it on with penguin
"The 100kg seal first subdued the 15kg penguin by lying on it. The penguin flapped its flippers and attempted to stand and escape - but to no avail. The seal then alternated between resting on the penguin, and thrusting its pelvis, trying to insert itself, unsuccessfully.Is that not how you are supposed to do it then?
Labels: Weird