I should really fix this content div so that it has a min-height. When I get slack on the blogging front things start to get a bit messy. As you can see…
archive for September, 2004
Ben and I finally picked up the keys to our new place on Monday :). I’ve managed to get tomorrow off Work to move all my junk over. I’ve hired a van and the ever helpful Jed has volunteered to drive as I still haven’t got my license yet. Everything is pretty much still in boxes so it should only take a couple of trips in the van. Hopefully we’ll have time left to pop to Ikea for a ‘few things’.
Got to get ADSL sorted in the place aswell. Force9 2MB is looking very tempting…
Woo-woo. Looks like Ben and I have secured the flat we wanted. We’re going along to the agency on Monday to sign things and pick up the keys 🙂 :). Now, I’ve just got to move all my junk in…
Hands up who’d rather have a whole load of wind turbines over a nuclear reactor. Sign here: embrace the revolution.
A while ago at work my colleague Alex discovered something in css that none of us knew.
When assigning a class to a div like so:
<div class="blah">...</div>
You can choose more than one class:
<div class="blah anotherclass andanotherclass">...</div>
This is incredibly helpful at times. I even used it in the re-design of the site here. The rollover images down at the bottom use this technique. There is a generic class that does the rollover background image changes and then more specific classes so that the image to use can be specified. Neato stuff.
Looks like Ben and I may have finally found a flat. Now we’ve just got the get the 8 billion (4) required references together before someone else snaps it up…
Kerry and I went to see Hellboy last night and damn it was good. I read the graphic novels a few months back and was pretty impressed. The stories have everything you’d want: nazis, the occult, general mythology, demons, secret government projects, more nazis, crazy nazis, clockwork nazis and some more bonkers nazis. I was pretty hooked and ploughed through all of the trade paperbacks quickly. Anyhoo, the film certainly lives up the novels and they didn’t tone it down a bit. Thankfully the crazy nazi characters are still there and have not been turned into comedy villains (a la Indiana Jones). Ron Perlman was made for this role, its just like they painted him red and he became hellboy. Great fun, although I’m amazed it’s only rated 12, in places it’s pretty nasty.
Just remembered, there was a trailer for Blade 3 (trinity) on aswell. It actually looks pretty good. I really didn’t think the blade franchise would last long but I was impressed by the freshness of the Blade 2. Maybe they’ll pull it off again.
Some more very tasty Battlefield 2 screenshots revealed on ea games here.
Had a day off work today and decided to help out at the GameSoc Freshers LAN. There was an ok turnout but surprisingly most people were playing Wario-Ware on the Game Cube instead of playing Quake 3! It’s usually the other way around.
Woo! It’s FireFox update day! I’m lovin’ the new features in 1.0PR like the rss integration, tweaked theme, faster UI, etc. It’s just so much better than Internet Explorer I don’t know where to start. If you haven’t switched, do so now.
If you’re looking for an Outlook alternative there is also FireFox’s sister project Thunderbird . This became my preferred news client after Outlook drove me up the wall with its incessant crashing and generally being lame and un-responsive.
Adam is back in Edinburgh after his industrial placement at Rolls-Royce. He’s finally had time to do a re-design of his site and has gone for the “oh so cool” photo at top. I hear it’s what all the cool kids are doing…
The Beasties have a new single out: ‘Triple Trouble’. It uses the hook from Rappers Delight and is just superb. As usual they also have a hilarious video that just has to be seen.
Yes, the first Mario game came out 19 years ago today in Japan in 1985. To celebrate this I give you these images:
My ex-colleague from Waterstones, Joe has set up a new blog for the SF book club that he runs at the east end branch in Edinburgh. Expect the usual Joe madness along with some book chat.
Mozilla have had a bit of a re-design. I like it.
As you can see (except you rss feed slackers) I now have a side navigation bar/box thing. You can hide it by clicking the little triangle up in the top-right corner there. I always wanted some more navigation on here but I really didn’t like the menus that I had. But, I don’t want the navigation to clutter up the place. A hideable side bar solves the problems nicely. I did have to use a tiny bit of javascript but it works in Firefox, IE, Camino, Safari and Opera so I’m content 🙂
My good pal Alex has recently been promoted within Waterstones to a buying position based in big ol’ London. He moved their yesterday, on the train, more of an advance party I think. He’ll most likely be without any kind of ‘net connection for a while, but has just got a new bling-bling mobile that comes with a ton of free picture messages. Being the enterprising geek that he is he’s going to put those free picture messages to use with the free photo log service provided by phlog.net. He’s already started documenting his adventures including a blow-by-blow account of his delays on the train journey down. Have a look at what will no doubt evolve into an interesting small-ginger-man-in-London photo-blog.
Looks like the free .info domains offer wasn’t a scam. Amazing. I now have :
cyber-junky.info
ojackson.info
oliverjackson.info
ollyj.info
ollyjackson.info
all pointing at cyber-junky.co.uk.
Pretty sweet, if a little pointless 😉
Just noticed International Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up. Yarha! me hearties!
This place is doing free .info domain registrations. There doesn’t seem to be a limit on how many you can register either. No doubt there is a catch somewhere but I regged about ten just now to see how it goes. http://ollyjackson.info and http://oliverjackson.info could be live sometime tomorrow.
J 5 inna hizzy!
Went to see Jurassic 5 at the Corn Exchange last Wednesday, I’ve basically been too slack to blog it so far. They were pretty awesome. I’ve never really seen any big hip-hop/raps acts live before so it was a lot of fun. The crowd were totally up for it, lots of hands in the air, bigging it up. They did all the faves and actually interacted with the crowd loads. It seemed liked they actually gave a crap about us, the audience. Which was nice.
Of course, I had to buy one of their sweet t-shirts while I was there. Cheaper than buying them from their online shop aswell 🙂
This whole thing with Mark Thatcher (Scratcher lol) is pretty crazy. Him and his ex-SAS buddies were going to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea. Gee…what is there in Equatorial Guinea? Oh! Oil! I can only think that this kind of thing is going to happen more and more. If the oil runs out in the middle east or it becomes even more un-settled then “entrepreneurial” people may start looking at these small (corrupt) oil-rich African nations. Get a hundred or so mercs, some weapons from South Africa and then stage a coup and rake in the cash.
I am back and installed at Ian‘s flat. This is Good News. No longer do I have the ~2 hour commute every morning. The extra lie-in on Monday was so good.
Green Day also seem to have a new album out. There’s new stuff coming out all over the place at the moment. I noticed that they also picked up a life-time achievement type thing at the Kerang awards the other week.
