Month: February 2003

Scottish heroes
You know, we should be damn proud of our nation, we’ve given a LOT to the rest of the world.
Why the sudden patriotism? Well Scotblog asks who we think could be a definitive national hero?

I had a few suggestions…

• Sir William Arrol – builder of Tay and Forth Rail bridges
• John Logie Baird – surely the BBC owe him something 😉
• Alexander Graham Bell – or we wouldn’t be on the internet at all!
• Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane – they named a city after him
• Robert Dinwiddie – Grandfather of the USA.. maybe not…
• Sir Alexander Fleming – I’m healthy, are you?
• Sir Thomas Telford – built a bridge over the atlantic

And that’s just the ones I think of right now. Hmmmm…

Just out of curiosity…
Can someone please tell me what the hell has happened to the
Lakers this year? From 3-peat to barely making the playoffs in one season… what’s going on?

Rage
We’ve had road rage, queue rage, and a lot more, but why does it happen?

Anyway, I will happily admit to being a rageaholic. Road rage occasionally but mainly pedestrian rage. This morning, for example, was obviously the perfect morning for four people to go for a stroll along a busy Glasgow street. How better to enjoy each others company than span the entire width of the pavement and not walk too fast in case the sound of their footsteps interrupted the flow of their, obviously important, conversation about Eastenders last night.

And imagine my suprise when, as I shoulder-charged my way through the line screaming “F*ckin move!!!”, they had the audacity to glare at me and sarcastically reply “Well excuuuuse us…” as they picked themselves up from the pavement. If I hadn’t been trying to get to work I might well have stopped and given them a piece of my mind!

Of course, that never happened but believe me the temptation was great, especially as the middle two were leaving just a little bit of a gap…

Redesign thoughts
Aside: What did the person who invented the drawing board go back to?

Anyway, that’s where I am. Sitting at the ‘virtual’ drawing board. Do I stick with a CSS ‘no table’ layout? Worry about XHTML, or head back to my old friend the table. To mouseover or not to mouseover, that is the quandary. Which elements to drop (eye/mirror project links for example), which to promote, which to move somewhere else altogether… More graphics, less graphics? Hi-tech design, boxes, or smooth minimalism?

Well here are a few sites that I keep admiring:

• Caterina
• iCandy
• Insubstantial
• A life uncommon
• Brainsluice

Feel free to chip in if you have any good ideas… or sites ya think I’d like…

Money, money, money
Banknotes and Paper Money – Modern Sets.

What? I need a reason?

Home again, home again
Made it home OK, the snow in Glasgow disappeared pretty fast but getting up the hill on the way home was fun…