Oliver Jackson is a blogger, web developer & designer living and working in Edinburgh.
Ahhh, the trivia you find whilst trawling the depths of wikipedia:
The Globe Theatre in London has a “Supporting Wall” which bears the names of individual donors to the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust. John Cleese bought two “signatures” on the wall, one for himself and one for Palin, whose name he intentionally mis-spelled as “Michael Pallin”.
Silliness aside, it is an extremely clever brand and logo. Just what we’ve been led to expect from Nintendo really 
update: and the new wii website is just as purty as the logo!
Wow! That is a lot of data and it’s presented reasonably nicely for a prototype. Although, does every web app have to looks like a Ruby on Rails test installation?
I should have mentioned this earlier but James and Alex have been showing off their mad skills with a new design over at Google Sightseeing. I love the retro travel brochure feel and the dynamically generated customs stamp images, nice one guys.
Wow, I’m getting worse and worse at this blogging thing. I was doing really well for a while and now its like “one crappy link post a week”. Sorry about that.
In my defence I have been attempting to post more to Google Sightseeing but still can’t keep up with Alex & Jame’s posting rate. On the upside I think I’ve learnt more general knowledge when composing posts for GGSS than doing anything else for a while now.
In other news Kerry and I took a big step last weekend by purchasing a Dyson DC08 vacuum between us and merging our CD collections. I also got a very shiny new alarm clock form Habitat which is something I’ve been wanting for a while. I’m not going to link to their website as it’s flash and obscenely slow to use, load, and non comprehensive.
Whilst getting software for work we realised that you can go out and buy a really old version of photoshop and then get the much cheaper upgrade option to a super new version like CS2. Saving you about £300 in the process. I managed to get an apparently “brand new sealed” version of photoshop 5.5 for a tenner off ebay. We’ll see how legit it is once it arrives. Of course, I now have to shell out £100+ to get the upgrade to CS2. I think I’ll wait for a good month before I get that.
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