I’ve been hearing some good things about the new prodigy album. I’ve caught bits of the single on radio1 and it sounds pretty darn good. Think I may have to pick it up once pay day comes around.
Fatboyslim also seems to have a new single out which is the usual much repeated sample thing. It’s kinda annoying at first but I’m sure it will grow on me as most of his stuff does.
Archive for August, 2004
2 commentsWork is pretty constant at the moment with lots of design “look n feel” changes on our main store. We finally managed to drag www.scotwebshops.com kicking and screaming out of HTML 4 hell. It took some convincing as it wasn’t a “critical” project but we managed it in the end :).
I’m feeling a bit nomad-like at the moment. I’m still without flat and for the last week have been staying at Kerry’s down in Selkirk. I’m staying there next week and then I think I’m back to Ians place for a wee while. Staying in Selkirk is a nice change from the city but the hour and a half+ bus ride in is a bit of a drag at times.
Also, I’m without internet when I’m not at work so if the blog/email is a bit quiet you know why.
Travelling is strange at times. One minute I can be sipping coffee in the dawn sun at home in chemical suburb Billingham. In an hour I can be climbing over mine spoil heaps in Nenthead with rabbits scampering around and grouse flying overhead. Give me another couple of hours and I can be back in the city muggy-heat of Edinburgh with the smell and sounds of the festival on the air.
Monday? Already? gah! Weekend was very busy and fun. Kerry and I got the train down to my parents on Friday night for my Mums birthday celebrations. We had a nice lazy Saturday morning with a huge array of food for brunch. In the early evening my sister and I got the barby going and cooked a great dinner. We had bacon steaks, huge burgers, thin beef steak, blackpudding….yum yum.
On Sunday we all piled into both cars and set off to Nenthead to show John and Kerry around the museum and site. The weather was gorgeous for the most part with some random light showers. Us kids went down the mine aswell about an hour after we got there. It was very cool and peaceful down there and we were absolutely ravenous when we got out. All in all a good day. I should really finish their website for them…
I received a very nice email from Blake Ross of the Mozilla FireFox team the other day. They are obviously trawling the web for blogs making nice comments about FireFox. The email was basically asking me to post a link graphic to FireFox on my page. Which I more than willing to do. So there it is, down at the bottom there. I utilised the “sliding door” image roll-over technique from a.l.a. to do the nice colours.
Well, that was not fun. I’m now installed (temporarily) at my very, very generous friend Ian’s flat. It took literally the whole weekend to get all my junk shifted. Plus, this wasn’t the junk-junk, I’d already weeded that out. On Saturday the other Ian brought his car to help me with the really big stuff, which was jolly nice. We thought that would leave a small amount of stuff to do on Sunday. It didn’t. I miscalculated the extent of my junk. Needless to say, when I move to the new place I’ll be hiring a van and/or some llamas.
Whilst the fabled flat move of doom is in progress it looks like I will have No Internet. Expect a slight lack of blogging and then an almighty splurge whenever I get somewhere with an IP address…
“Amidst all the various Doom ports and expansions, we are starting up on our next game. It will have a new rendering engine, which will be keeping me busy for a while, but the only other thing we are saying for now is that it won’t be a sequel to any of our previous work.”
-John Carmack
Could be worth keeping an eye on: Guardian Games Blog