Time to put the blog to sleep for the festive period. In a break from the usual sitting at home with the parents, watching endless soaps on TV and sweltering from a wave of central heating, Emma and I are spending Christmas in Scotland. We’ve bagged a beautiful cottage for a few days in Glensheil, just a few miles from the Isle of Skye.
Blimey. Isn’t it great when a band you love live up to your expectations when playing live? I’ve seen a hell of a lot of great gigs throughout 2004, but nothing matched the dark, brooding brilliance of Interpol playing to a sold-out Rock City in Nottingham last night.
Woo-hoo! My Logical Blocks template has just won 2nd prize in the Expression Engine template contest. As you may know, I’m a big advocate of EE, and my prize of a $100 Amazon voucher, free copy of EE, and free hosting is a very nice Christmas present indeed. Read on…
Further to the previous post detailing multi-element rollovers, incorporating background color and XHTML text with images, I have created a pretty sturdy thing called Colly’s advanced rollover generator.
CSS rollovers are pretty common and well documented. However, for a recent project, I needed to make a button that revealed some background colour, contained markup text, and a border-less image. I also had to ensure all three elements could be easily edited. Straightforward? No. Neither text nor the text background could be part of the image, so I needed a CSS workaround.
Yesterday, I finally unpacked one of our two new G5s. This office is starting to look like some kind of filthy Apple Store - one where the staff don’t clean, they just drink Coke and leave stained tea cups everywhere.
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finally completed version two of The Libertines official website. They’re still together, so it’s still important.
Busy as the proverbial bee. Aside form verbal fisticuffs with the Inland Revenue, appalling drunken behaviour in dressing rooms, and too much time on trains, I have actually been hard at it of late. If you are interested in either Mac Expo, split or splitting pop bands, eating South African wildlife or WW1 regenerative face surgery, then do read on. Otherwise, you’ll find the following quite self-indulgent…
In search of knowledge and enlightenment, an unordered list of UK bloggers - a Brit Pack if you will - came from far, wide, and even Wales to pool ideas, thoughts and beer money.
After the three day turnaround of version 1, we’ll be unveiling version 2 of our Libertines build in the next few days, full of new features, no frames, valid code, accessible forms and all hopefully before the band splits up.
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