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Monthly Archive for February, 2005

Buses & Blogs

Posted February 28, 2005 0 Comments

I’ve noticed, recently, when looking for reviews
of things I want (but usually can’t afford) I’ll trust the blogger over the
“professional” standpoint. Firstly, bloggers are usually writing for themselves,
and so a positive review is nothing more than a “hey, look what I got!” whereas
a negative post would indicate incredible disdain, a sort of “I’ve been burnt,
so don’t fall into the same trap will
you!”.My second point is - with a
blogger you have the resource to go back into the blog’s archives to determine
whether this guy’s on the right path. There’s also a blogger’s following, when
he posts a deeply controversial entry someone (ussualy a CAPS loving american
12-16 year old - w00t) is bound to speak his mind. Friends, separated by
hundreds of miles of www… won’t hold back on their opinions either. We’ve come
a long way since Amazon’s “Customer
Reviews”.Here’s my problem, I’m on a
bus right now from my place in Huntly to Elgin (a trip of 45km or so) and so far
it’s been overly hot (saying this, I have just this second discovered the cold
air stream coming from a small, user-friendly, vent above) it smells (people
smell), it’s infuriatingly tight (with 14″ iBook on lap) worst of all this
horrid trip is costing me $20, ��9.50 in real
money.So - if you’re thinking of
taking a bus to anywhere in North East Scotland when you have the option of
train or taxi. Don’t bus it.
Really.What The Fuck. Also, today I’m
starting a mame on Flickr. “A Day In The Life”. I’m going to take photos and
notes on my P800 and get back tonight, assemble it and I’ll post a link soon as.
Hoorah for Flickr, save me from bus/smelly north-easter-induced
tedium.

Coppola

Posted February 27, 2005 0 Comments

After Francis or Sofia, you decide.
I’ve made this template because I’m bored of bland designs and wanted to do
something interesting this Sunday. I hope this gives you immense joy, It gave me
a kick in the teeth a few times - yet it’s not as buggy as I would have thought.
Cross-browser, cross OS - I’m no “Web-Designer Genius” but I like
it.
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Coppola

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Today I wanted a change. It’s a Sunday, and on
the basis of purifying me broken iBlog template I decided I’d tweak around a
bit. If your not into websites, or their design, you won’t get this; webpages
just look different sometimes. Internet Explorer to Safari, Internet Explorer to
Internet Explorer, OS X to Windows XP, Firefox to Opera… who to please? Well,
some people hack-around and create a happy-medium, personally I don’t have the
know-how to sit down and decide where to put the <!–[if IE]>’s so
instead, I’ll start from scratch Keep It Simple Stupid, as they
say.So, there I am about to trash the
purple “Kalamazootopia” template when I say - no. I’m not making my site for
anyone but myself (is that a sad thing?) and I’m not bowing to anyone on
Internet Explorer… grow up, get Firefox.And
this is where Coppola came from, the five minutes in which I had a turn around
feeling “lets do something new” I scribbled (read on) the idea of a simple and
pretty little web
template…Scribbled; well, an artist
would rush for pencil or paints, I ran for Adobe GoLive and within 20 minutes
had created a cross-browser loving, gradient pending, super-fast rendering
beauty of a blog template. High on this idea, I turned to a
post I had read earlier this morning about a really neat (and free)
iBlog template, with 6 flavours, some ‘fella just made, no money involved, he -
like me - is fed up of seeing the default iBlog template so he created a
rights-free (or creative commons licensed) template. Whatta’
guy!Moreover, as a Bonsai fan-boy I want to get closer
to the Heillman inside
me, a free download-able, semi-supported, easily understood template is what I
wanted, is what I’ve created… so this is my Kubrick. Ladies and
gentleman I give you - Coppola (beta
v.0.1).
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