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Hee hee hee,

// October 30th, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

Look everyone, I’ve got great big pointy teeth!

rabbit Mean lil fellow, arn’t you?

Justification

// October 30th, 2003 // No Comments » // Tech

I think its time I added a little explanation to my reasoning for adding MadPony to my BIDLBRA section (heh heh – sounds like biddle bra … )

I also really need to apologise to MadPony for not providing it with a few friends in that section but I haven’t had any chance to look for more blogs I don’t like recently. Ok, without further ado … the reasons:

They have been listed on Blogger’s “Blogs of Note” section for weeks. Come on guys, I’m sure there are newer blogs than this one which have caught your eye
Baseball … egh
Watching and enjoying reality TV is all well and good but for gods sake, don’t comment on it! (unless you are prepared to be scathingly ruthless about the state of a society which finds watching a contrived mass produced version of somebody else’s life a suitable substitute for their own.
They don’t update enough … in fact Lauren doesn’t seem to be updating at all. I demand that all blogs be updated once a day otheriwse I have to find something productive to do with my lunch break.
The authors are young, beautiful, intelligent and seemingly quite well balanced … makes you sick doesn’t it?
um
er
…

Ok, so i can’t really justify it. Lets face it, one of the joys of this whole blogging craze is that you gain (often intimate) access to a whole cross section of society. You are allowed the privilege of knowing what people you don’t know and will never likely meet do with their lives, think of all sorts of things and what they had for lunch. All of this is (primarily) a giant leap for the species as a whole and (secondarily) a great way to waste my lunch hour.

So for the time being girls, you are off the BIDLBRA list and back on to the regular blogroll.

Aren’t I nice?

R

Note: This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that these guys get over 1500 hits a day and that all they have to do is ask and my cheapass little blog gets exposed to the ruthless cwitiscm of 100’s of angry pony fans … nothing to do with that at all!

My brain hurts …

// October 29th, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

Sorry folks, I’ve been more than a little lame about blogging recently. This is solely due to the vast quantity of work (both at work and at home) which has sprung up over the past few days. I am in dire need of a 36 hour day followed by a three day weekend… this is never going to happen.

Right, what’s new? Well, Markiss has now set up his own blog which I trust will be as scintilating as my own

New Site Design – as and when I manage to get a spare few minutes to myself, I’ll finish and post the new template for helpful feedback from you lovely people.

Helen has kindly blogrolled me for which I am very grateful. Its not very often you get linked to from a site of such impeccable quality and depth of feeling… plus Helen loves Jersey and therefore has very good taste.

My halloween costume is nearly ready, photos will be posted when available.

And that’s your lot – right, back to work I’m afraid.

Me in A to Z

// October 28th, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

A-ACTOR (favorite): Willem Dafoe

B-BOYHOOD IDOLS: Han Solo,

C-CHORE YOU HATE: Washing the floor!

D-DAD’S NAME: Denzil (ooh how aliterate can you get)

E-ESSENTIAL VIDEO IN COLLECTION: 2001 a space oddessy

F-FAVE ACTRESS: Rachel Weisz

G-GOLD OR SILVER: Platinum

H-HOMETOWN: Welland … it’s not a town and it’s not home but it’s as close as i get

I-INSTRUMENTS YOU PLAY: the harmonica (occasional and totally lacking in talent)

J-JOB TITLE: Senior Web Designer / Business Solutions Developer / Web Technology Consultant – take your pick!

K-KIDS: Ugh … no thank you

L-LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: bungalow

M-MUM’S NAME: Jacquie

N-# OF PEOPLE YOU’VE SLEPT WITH: 5(6)

O-OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: 2

P-PHOBIA: Eyeballs, papercuts, lemon juice – nuff said

Q-QUOTE YOU LIKE: “How about a nice hot cup of shutthefuckup…”

R-RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: A confirmed and researched Atheist

S-SIBLINGS: 1 (ahh … miss you sis!)

T-TIME YOU WAKE UP: 06:30 – 08:30 depending

U-UNIQUE HABIT: there is no such thing …

V-VEGETABLE YOU REFUSE TO EAT: None i can think of (is sweetcorn a vegetable?)

W-WORST HABIT: Smoking … ugh

X-X-RAYS YOU’VE HAD: Lots – everything except my left hand

Y-YUMMY FOOD YOU MAKE: The best short crust pastry in the world and a lovely thing with pork, chilli and chocolate

Z-ZODIAC SIGN: Cancerian

(Thanks to SnoozeButtonDreams for the template. If anybody emails this to me i’m gonna scream!)

Who killed cock robin?

// October 27th, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

Teddy did … this morning in fact. Now i know that there’s this whole symbiosys thing going on there and that cats are meant to kill lil birdies but this was a bit upsetting. Every year i look forward to my first sighting of “our” robin and know that once i’ve said that first hello, he’ll (she’ll?) be there to welcome me almost every morning as i step out the door on the way to work…

and ted ate it … cheers ted.

Very quick post

// October 24th, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

As i have badminton in 15 minutes (yes some of us do work out on friday night … there’s plenty of drinkin time left in the weekend)

i just want to let you know that i have just had one of the hardest days of my life … details will follow later but i’d like to say “Thanks for NOTHING” to Cindy at Macromedia tech support … and to think i made that call on my mobile – ouch!

Right, must dash, excercising…

What the fuck is going on with Britney Spears?…

// October 23rd, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

So I’m surfing around the net last night and totally by accident, i knock my glass of milk all over the mouse resulting in a major short circuit which threw me six foot in the air. As i collapsed back into my chair I (again totally by accident) let my hand fall bach onto the mouse and before i knew what was happening I’d loaded the new britney spears video … oh my good lord … now it has to be said that she was never my favourtie artist mainly due to her being a manufactured, over marketed and talentless POS whose record sales are a shocking testament to the inherrent stupidity of young girls and dirty old men …

but this new puppy takes the frickin cake… not only do we have good ole britney looking like shes just come through a hedge backwards (and not in the very sexy Christina A type way) but we also have the poor brat twithing and writhing like some kind of crazed, feral animal. And then … MADONNA APPEARS!!! Yes that’s right folks, hot of the back of that so called “lesbian kiss” (come on guys – say it with me “Marketing heaven…marketing heaven”) we have the queen of reinvention showing up to go tet a tet with BS…

So after god know how much of the expected lame ass tune with oddly none specific vocals we are treated to madge asking britney to “show her what you got!!!” not to mention the sickening writhing against the wall.

So this got me thinking … are there by any chance a pair of resonably good looking lesbains out there? You don’t need any talent musical or otherwise … you just have to be happy to snog each others faces off on camera … if so, get in touch and i’ll make you both *****STARS*****

XML Declaration – what it means to YOU!!!

// October 23rd, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

Right, this is a techy post so most people can switch off now. I have just discovered something that I should have known a long time ago. It concerns the inclusion of an XML declaration (ie. ) at the top of your page. It seems that this tiny line of code can have a serious impact on both IE6 and Opera browsers. Namely, it forces them back into quirks mode … which is a pain in the ass.

For those of you who don’t know “quirks mode” is a funnction of IE and other browsers whereby it renders content according to its own DocType and not to the one you set. This primarily means that in IE text will always be one point size larger than Mozilla (which is a Standards Compliant Browser). It also has some major knockon effects for CSS-P. So from here on, kiss good bye to the XML declaration. Fortunately it isn’t a required page element but it does mean that I will have to change all my pages … arse!

Coming soon – a new design for the whole site

// October 22nd, 2003 // No Comments » // Personal

why? because I’m bored with this one. I have also made several changes to the content that require me to present the site in a more detailed and flexible manner.

So hopefully, you will soon be offered the first glimpse at XSet version 4.1. As a teaser here are some of the new fetures I’m going to attempt to provide:

Google Search Box – it has to come back as I have had to remove the Google toolbar!
Quote of the Day
Now playing / reading/watching info – hopefully, the static nature of this content will convince me to get my arse in gear and see more movies, buy more music and read more books
A decent comments system – ie one that works properly
User customisable color schemes – so you can choose what the site should look like
Loads more that I can’t be bothered to think of right now

If anybody has any more suggestions then please let me know.

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