Archive for May 2005

What a match! What a hangover. Fantastic. Just hope Uefa and the FA see sense and let Liverpool defend the title.

This week I’m participating in the RAJAR National Radio Listening Survey, which produces the official audience figures for UK radio stations. Now by my reckoning, I have the power to add nearly 19,000* extra listners to a radio station’s figures. Of course if there are any DJs or radio station executives reading this, I want [...]

The good news: Apple a giving out free batteries to some iBook and PowerBook owners. The bad news: it’s because the old ones might catch fire.
Models affected are 12″ iBook G4 and 12″ & 15″ PowerBook G4s sold between October ‘04 and May ‘05. More details on identifying the dodgy batteries from Apple. Thankfully mine’s [...]

This made me laugh (no mean feat considering the hangover I’ve got this morning - damn that 3 for 2 offer at Threshers).

Is this one of the happy Asda mums that Sharon Osbourne’s going on about in the ads?

It’s not often I feel the urge to comment on a TV commercial — in fact I think this is certainly a first — but I’ve got to say the new Aero ad (with the tune from the Big Lebowski) is just stunning. The way the bubbles slowly form a woman’s face is so well [...]

Time to have a bit of a clear out of my web design-related bookmarks — you’ll have to excuse their rather random nature…

Doug Bowman wrote a little piece about using flags to help organise your CSS, which John Oxton followed up with a nice example of how he does things.
Scott McDaniel demonstrates how much fun [...]

We had a call from a client the other day regarding the e-commerce site we’re developing for them. They had a query about the page that shows all the top levels of product categories, and the conversation went something like this —
Client: Are you going to put product thumbnails for each of the main categories [...]

This is my idea of relaxed blogging — sitting in the garden on a Sunday afternoon, cool drink in hand, watching the cats chasing flies (OK, I could do without the flies, but they keep Patty and Selma amused — see exhibit A and B below).

The one down-side of the iBook’s white finish is that [...]

I suppose I ought to follow up my previous posts with a comment on the election result.
Sadly the Lib Dems didn’t manage to unseat the Labour MP here, so Dulwich residents are going to be suffering from another four years of Irritable Jowell Syndrome. Her majority did go down by about 4,000, mostly in favour [...]

In case anyone’s interested, I ended up voting Green. Just hope to God Tessa Jowell doesn’t beat the Lib Dems by one vote….

Isn’t it amazing how MPs suddenly get interested in their constituents’ views in the weeks before an election? I’ve had several letters, a paper and a questionnaire from my MP Tessa Jowell (archetypal Blairite with allegedly very dodgy husband) in the last month. If only she’d been as keen to hear my thoughts and actually [...]

Ha ha! They may be able to buy the Premiership title, but it’s great to see Chelsea can’t do the same with the Champions League. Brilliant.