It won’t change me

A few days ago I started thinking about re-doing World of Badger from scratch, writing a new PHP script for the blog, cleaning up my stylesheets, checking all the pages for standards-compliance, and — shock horror — actually putting up some new content. No rush though, I thought; my friends are the only people that visit anyway…

So, as a result of appearing in the Guardian’s blog thingy today, I felt obliged to spend this evening ‘running the Hoover over the place’ in case I had any visitors. Hence the slight changes to this page, including an easier way to access my older entries (on the right). And I’m in the process of getting some new photos up in the all-new photo page, which should be online sometime on Friday. In the meantime, if you want to see a photo of me in a garden without any trousers on (and who wouldn’t?), these pictures from July should suffice. It’s not quite the full make-over this site needs, but it’s a start.

Of course, this is a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, now the swanky media-types have already scrutinized my every rant and dodgy bit of markup. Had I known that anyone other than a 16 year old doing work experience at the Guardian would see this site, I’d have… well, I’d probably turned this page into a big, browser-hijacking advert for a porn site, and made a fortune from the click-throughs. Or maybe I’d have put up a big banner at the top of the page saying:

Dear Anita, some years ago, my then-girlfiend worked in the Body Shop in Cardiff to supplement her student overdraft, and your company paid her an appallingly exploitative wage.

or perhaps:

Dear Alan, please could you bring Jeremy Hardy back to the Guardian to replace Julie Burchill — if she tries any harder to be controversial, she’ll have to write for the Daily Mail. Alternatively, I would be happy to let you use my ill-thought out rants for £10k a year (and I’d happily slag-off my ex too).

or even a desperate:

Web Designer/Developer seeks employment. Can do non-lurid colours if necessary. Will work for food.

Hope I don’t come across as all bitter and twisted; in truth getting shortlisted was a really nice surprise, and rather made my day. So thank you to the Guardian and all the judges, and congratulations to the winners and shortlistees.

Oh yeah, and if you’re visiting for the first time and would like to say “hello”, or even “Your site sucks. I should have been shortlisted, not you!”, then a form and email address can be found on my contact page. Right, I’m finally off to have a gander at the other sites…

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