June 2008
Doing some file management in preparation for the new revamp of www.skateboardscotland.com. Trying to get new site online within 2 weeks.
Annie and the kids are off to Toronto for Summer hols on Friday, house needing cleaned etc before they go. I follow on July 18th.
Sorting through emails, trying to clear a few outstanding tasks. This week is going to be busy both at work and home.
I’m getting hungry, the indian buffet I had for lunch seems to have been digested now. Time for peanut butter toast :)
Children are in bed. Watched my 5 month old fall asleep whilst singing to her. Beautiful.
Visual Thinking - Douglas Coupland - Granta →
“Last summer in Vancouver I attended a screening of the cult documentary Helvetica — a biography of the classic sans serif font designed in 1957. All 950 seats of the Ridge Theatre were…
Ack, I brag about my broadband and then it goes down! Just had to reboot my router!
Watching live broadcast of Sigur Ros & Bjork from Iceland: http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic//view/page.basic/home
iPhone price plans (and all mobile plans!) are lame in Canada - http://tinyurl.com/4okppq
Ha ha! Free full length episode of TJ Hooker on UK iTunes http://tinyurl.com/3g4jc6
I found a large dead rat in my garden this morning, pest control man’s solution seems to have worked. Indications are there was only one.
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“Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely…
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This is a test post from twitterfone.
http://tinyurl.com/6h79vm
I’m sure this is good news for Phishing scammers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7475279.stm - Not sure if it’s good for anyone else!
Fancy going surfing sometime soon, but no waves, flat as a pancake.
Cool, got a Fire eagle login now :)
Just going into the 2nd pitch of the week. Won the first one, hope we get this one too!
This is pretty funny - http://tinyurl.com/6beg27
Gabriella checking out her teething ring - http://snaptweet.com/db4e8
Listening to “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly”
And by ‘finishing ceremony’ in my last tweet I meant finishing nursery school, in case that sounded odd!
At my daughter’s finishing ceremony this morning I overheard a 3 year old ask, “Does Robert Mugabe have a fairy?”.
Exclusive pics of ‘Snow Leopard’ interface - http://tinyurl.com/5m7ej5
Sorry, last tweet should be: Exclusive pics of Snow Leopard’s winter face - http://tinyurl.com/5m7ej5 - My bad ;)
Heading home, Sigur Ros on my iPod, sun in the sky…
Found a file in my archives that said I published my 1st ever class website (Websight!) at college on June 22nd 1995, 13 yrs ago yesterday!!
Even after several years it still bugs me that Walkers swapped Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar crisps packet colours. It’s just confusing!
SocialLearn » About →
“For 3000 years education has made the learner adapt to the system. SocialLearn [1] aims to reverse this and make the education system adapt to the learner. SocialLearn is a project initiated…
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Useful step by step for prepping video for use on iPods. Saved By: Rick Curran | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: video, ipod, tutorial
Giva Labs - mcDropdown jQuery Plug-in | Giva →
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WatchGo Skateboarding Day 08 - Dudhope
Go Skateboarding Day 08 - Dudhope - http://snaptweet.com/b7058
This is what happens when you let your daughter paint your face - http://snaptweet.com/e226d
Doh, twilight skate foiled by broken kingpin!
tired after fulfilling my obligations on International Go Skateboarding Day
Todays tip: Don’t buy a Western Digital MyBook World Edition II Gigabit NAS drive. In short it’s incapable of anything more than 24-40Mbps!
Working on a blog post, (yes it’s late, but I’ve got he inspiration)
playing Boom Blox on the Wii again, getting my daily dose!
Listening to: http://tinyurl.com/62e4oq
Open Firefox 3, type into address bar ‘about:robots’
Researching ‘fixed versus fluid’ layout issues for an upcoming pitch.
What are peoples thoughts re elastic vs fixed width sites? Got opinions? Links to articles? Looking for feedback!
adding some fields to a database schema, adding some mods to a CMS module.
This is great bit of architectural / interior design creativity http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/garden/12puzzle.html
playing Boom Blox on the Wii
Mozilla servers struggling, no sign of Firefox 3…
Trying out http://twitter.com/timer