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I should make a thought for the day / random quote section. I should also make a categories summary list, as suggested by someone in #WebDev ShadowXJ5 from #WebDev 😉 . I should also fix up some kind of link/sponsor thing to get this site about a bit.

Where was I? Oh yes…

“There is hardly anything in the world that some men cannot make a little bit worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” (John Ruskin)

Lovely blockquoting there 😉

Just a couple of links for the morning, the first being an article on DansData, perhaps my favorite website on the ‘net. Here’s the article, it’s not as in-depth as some photography tutorial/explaination pages, but it’s humourous and down to earth enough for pretty much everyone.

The second thing that poked me in the eye this morning was something on the BBC. I don’t smoke, nor do I drink or do anything vice-y on a regular basis, or any basis for that matter, so why do I care? Much as I’d like to see smoking in public banned outright across the nation, (Lets face is, if I decided to piss on you in public and make you stink, you’d complain. So why are people allowed to stand next to you and smoke, and make you stink? Of course, if you LIKE being pissed on do it in your own time, where the only person getting pissed on is you. Point made? I’ll move on…) I really don’t think it’s going to happen. Why not? Well lets take a look-see… Ecstacy and cannabis are supposed to be illegal and are not available in high street stores, yet millions and millions of people guzzle that stuff every week. Some success by the government law enforcement systems on that issue. So they’d like to try and ban something that a) people have grown up and lived with all their lives and 2) is widely available to the public in every country in the world. Fat chance. Oh, I forgot one thing, c) that is generates over 9 billion pounds for the UK government anually. Banning smoking would be like banning road tax. Yeah right.

Microsoft’s FAT charges: Digital Photography Review

Lovely. You have to admire commercialism. If MS can do this to something like FAT, we can only hope that all the rubbish about software patents is never put through the courts, else independant software development is going to get shot through the head. For those who don’t know what I’m on about, you should check this out.

I’m so glad the visiting public can’t see the backend of the gallery, it’s been overlooked amidst the recent updates so the colourscheme is a little, how shall I put it… bizarre?

You should notice a few more links on the site, top right, and on the right hand menu panel, for “Contact Me” and “FAQ”. No prizes for guessing what they do, but feel free to check them out. Heck, if you’re feeling bold you could even use the contact me form to send me a question for the FAQ… How’s that for user interaction? 😉

What’s left to do? More colourschemes would be nice, though not essential, other than that, the majority of the things you’ll see are done, with only the gallery backend requiring a complete re-write bit of tidying up.

Fin.

Jeebers.

Reading the BBC today, I stumbled across this and it made me chuckle… it’s not so much that their OS has been ripped off, that kind of thing is almost expected in this day and age, but it’s the fact that it’s been ripped off so far before its release. It’s just a shame they’ve got hold of a built version, if they’d only managed to get hold of the source, perhaps the GPL community would have been able to do something noble with it. Such as removing unecessary horizontal scrollbars. Or something. Not that I’m bitter.

More photo’s to come soon, and I really should sort out some kind of link aggregator for the right hand menu over there…

Finally today (or at least, this afternoon) thanks to Mr DeKooter, a very good friend of mine, for helping me pick out some rather icier colours for the ice theme on the website. Cheers maj 😀

Browsing the news this morning I came across this article on Wired.com:
Wired News: Microsoft Software in Every Car?
Whilst drive-by-wire is by no means a new idea, with software controlling several cars in retail already, the call for concern comes from this particular vendor.
BSOD at the wheell? No thanks. Who knows, you might even find yourself reversing into a horizontal scrollbar…. *cough*

Speaking of horizontal scrollbars, some of you who are still ignoring the best advice in the world will notice that the evil “Pointless Horizontal Scrollbar of Despair” is no longer with us. May it rot in hell.

Further to the monster effort made to organise the CSS, I’ve actually gone and put it to use. See up in the header, there’s a menu bar. See the “Themes” thing? Go on… click one…

If you’re really lazy of course, you can click here but it’s really not that much of an effort.

Even Munky’s gone all festive 😉