Oliver Jackson is a blogger, web developer & designer living and working in Edinburgh.
One of my favourite films.
Alex at work has recently finished the companies latest pet project. We got an article in yesterdays Herald and there is a big fancy “press event” this Thursday. Should be interesting to see what the general public reaction is, some of the kilts are pretty “out there”.
I am now officially on the Ben flat hunt team. We have our max price, we know our room requirements. All that is left to do is view some flats. Wish me luck tomorrow morning on the phone…
Hrmmmm, interesting: Pattern Recognition (2006)
Jurassic 5 are on at T On The Fringe on the 1st September. I discovered these guys last year and it was one of those moments when you wonder how you couldn’t have know about them already. If you know what I mean…
I really, really need to get off my ass and find a flat. I’ve only got two and a bit weeks left here and I don’t want to be stuck in somewhere crappy.
Interesting article on Wired about designers who redesign other companies inaccessible websites.
All very topical at the moment after the morons at Odeon closed down the Accessible Odeon site.
I finally managed to get the new design online. I should I have pointed out that the post below was a photoshop mockup. When comparing it against whats online now it’s suprisingly close. The shadow on the background was inspired by Alex’s background shadow technique. The drop down menus are ‘Suckerfish’ menus taken from A List Apart. They still have some bugs on Safari and Opera but seem to be working ok on IE and FireFox. Its not perfect on IE but it’s usable. I’m making use of IE only CSS with the star HTML selector bug. I’ve also converted to XHTML mainly because I’m using it at work and cause its pretty neat. I had to use yet another IE hack to get it work in IE and yet still validate.
I’ve also moved from MoveableType to WordPress for the blog engine. Mainly becuase MT was just getting too clunky and annoying. The final straw was when I realised I couldn’t use completely custom archive templates. I needed to put PHP in them, and I couldn’t. I was letting MT get away with stuff because I though changing over would be a hassle. I was wrong, the WordPress install is a dream, a million times easier than MT. It also managed to import all my MT blog entries perfectly. Which is pretty darn good.
Overall I’m lovin’ it. What do you think?
“During a Q&A with id CEO Todd Hollenshead, Todd confirms the already stated plan for id’s next internal project to be an entirely new intellectual property, and drops the news along the way that some unnamed third party is currently at work on an as-yet not officially announced sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the World War II shooter originally built on Quake III technology.”
sweet
(from bluesnews)
The intelligence: flawed
The dossier: dodgy
The 45-minute claim: wrong
Dr Brian Jones: vindicated
Iraq’s link to al-Qa’ida: unproven
The public: misled
The case for war: exaggerated
And who was to blame? No one
great, that was time well spent then.
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