Cal Flickrd some of his old photos of blogmeets, and lo and behold, a photo of a slightly-chubby looking eighteen-year-old Tom, with Robyn, and most definitely without a beard. Spooky.
I look a bit less chubby these days.
Links & notes for this month
Nothing new today, sorry - I've got a few posts in the cupboard but have been busy hacking together My First WordPress Plugin. Don't get excited. It really is no great shakes, just provides a handy template function that should have been there anyway, but I'm quite pleased I've managed to stick to someone else's standards and write something oh-so-tidy. I'm about halfway through documenting it and preparing all the publicity material. Watch this space... |
When I redesigned this site, I got so fed up after fourteen days of wrangling with XHTML, CSS, and Wordpress that I just kept the comments design from my old MT site - it was grayscale, it didn't clash, it did. But it wasn't quite what I intended. I've now updated how comments are listed, so you might need to refresh your stylesheet if individual pages look weird. And yes, I coded it by hand myself; it may look like other products on the market, but I stole not a sausage. Besides, I'm thinking of redesigning the whole shebang anyhow.
Update: well, it doesn't quite look right in IE6 (negative margin not handled properly) but it looks functional, so I'll leave it at that for now. Remember to refresh that stylesheet! |
A day early, too. Broadband reconnected in my house - and the wireless even stretches to the study. Superb. One less thing to have to worry about. |
Just launched last week: the New Statesman/Pfizer Policy Forum on Health. Not the normal sort of thing I'd link on Infovore, but the design and build (as well as a fair bit of the PHP development) was carried out by my good self. Very pleased with it, all-told - especially the "white-grid" and quite how tidy the markup is. Yes, I know it's not valid XHTML Transitional. I blame legacy CMSes and unencoded ampersands. |
The XGameStation Micro - a homebrew games console for learning hardware development on. Graphics are similar to an Atari 2600; the processor is more powerful; it takes standard nine-pin joysticks and comes with documentation and emulators for development. Really nifty - not sure I could spend that much given limited programming skills, but it's a fantastic idea: giving developers a limited (but functional) platform that harks back to old 8-bit systems. I'll be keeping an eye on their upcoming projects. |
