Testing, testing

Reading time: < 1 min Right guys and gals, I need your help. I’ve (finally) pulled together a Content First Layout and would appreciate your feedback. The alignment of the columns is still to be sorted, but I want to check that you are all seeing three columns, from left to right:1. Left – Site Navigation2. Middle – Miniblog3. Right…

PANIC!!

Reading time: < 1 min What’s the LAST thing you want to hear when you’ve gone to the loo, just sat down and … er … started… The bloody fire alarm!! (Certainly speeds up the process mind you!)

Purchases

Reading time: < 1 min Thanks to everyone who responded with book suggestions, I’ve sourced a couple of them from friends and have just hit Amazon with this lot: Martin Amis – London Fields Jorge Luis Borges – Labryinths Phillip Pullman – His Dark Materials Trilogy (boxset) Garrison Keillor – Leaving Home Ultra Chilled Vols 1 & 2… which isn’t…

Web as platform

Reading time: 2 mins Just a short post to remind myself to expand on my thoughts as prompted by Jason Kottke: Web as platform. Except I’m not going to as I spent about an hour last night, writing, deleting, writing, deleting, writing, deleting and I’m still not sure WHERE I think this is headed. Suffice to say that I…

Explaining

Reading time: < 1 min Note: I drafted this yesterday before Richard Madeley’s “dyke” comment was aired and, as usual, the BBC News website has an interesting article about the whole wording issue. “[The words are]… liable to change their connotations and meanings depending on who is saying them, to whom, in what circumstances, sometimes even depending on their tone…

Bookwise

Reading time: < 1 min So, what are you currently reading? Me? I’m reading trash. Well not trash, as in old Cornflake boxes, but trash as in easy to read, easily “put-down-able” and “pick-up-able” type novels. Think Jeffery Deaver, James Patterson, Nick Hornby, Iain Banks and the like. Sometimes I hear a little chuckle, a mocking laugh echoing around the…