Yearly Archives: 2006

Lake District

Myself, Gill, and Bobby went on a spur of the moment camping trip to the Lake district this weekend. THe start of the weekend did not go well, with the Volvo overheating 4 times to and from work on friday, eventually resulting in the boiling over of all my coolant and a trip to the local Volvo garage on a tow truck. This led to us leaving an hour and a half later than expected and in the wrong car (we had planned to go in the Volvo [one of the main reasons for getting it]). Because we were late, by the time we got to the national-trust site we wanted to stay on —– it was full, As were all the other campsites near Lake Windermere. There was one last site that we had been given directions to – If that was full we were going home. It wasn’t full so we pitched our tent and had a lantern lit bbq for dinner (at 10pm.).

The rest of the weekend went very well, with plenty of relaxing, sun bathing, swimming, eating and generally running around sniffing the bitches asses. Bobby also had fun.

I would definitely recommend the Lake District as a camping destination but booking a site would be advised.

XGL madness

I managed to get (with some help) XGL working on the iBook and it runs quite well considering the graphics cards in those machines. All the key bindings were screwed though (it being a mac keyboard – an australian one at that) and it misunderstood the size of my screen so all my apps were going under the gnome toolbar. I’ve disabled it for now but it is possible.

CringeFest

I usually cringe alot when watching reality shows but this years big brother is out of this world. Gill has started watching it and I can’t stand it, so many outrageously camp gays, pornstar look alikes and the usual quota of freaks. Please stop the madness.

Metteroche.com finally goes live

Mette Roche (my mum) has been after me for ages to build her a website. I finally got around to it and the finished site isn’t too bad. The design is not finished yet but all the functionality is there. She’s an artist and the aim of the site is to promote her paintings and exhibitions. I built it on WordPress and used the wonderful Flickr Photo Album for WordPress plugin. She manages her paintings on Flickr and the hacked version of the plugin displays all her paintings in their different categories on her site.

Grange Art Studio

Spam is getting better

I get a huge amount of comment spam, most of which is thankfully caught by Askimet but one did get through but I can fully understand why, it’s very good and very subtle

I’m very, very impressed that this sort of work is being done; Web Design is getting stagnant with people using just styled
block-level elements to produce artwork. The incorporation of SVG into sites excites me a lot.
How long do you expect it will take for this sort of technology to be widespread?
Obviously you can only speak about WebKit realistically, but if it’s going to take ten years for IE Win to gain (full) support,
we can’t design with it.
I’m amused by the “Becoming more important” line in the first paragraph. This has been a HUGE problem for years –
ever since HTML-2.0 was introduced to be more of a layout language and less of a markup language. For an example,
you just have to look at this site. sex partners Why is all the text
crammed over on the left side of the page with a big blank space on the right side?
Why is the default font tiny and unreadable? Fortunately most browsers now let you override the latter problem.

It was a comment to a post that was completely unrelated. Watch out folks, the spammers are getting better, and by the looks of it we might be seeing some SVG porn soon :). I’ve left he link in as I thought it was the least I could do as he did impress me.