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Recommended Viewing

• 300†
  Does exactly what it says on the (comic book) tin. Loved it.
• Little Miss Sunshine†
  Very funny, disturbing (the beauty pageant) and completely messed up -- but in a good way.
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky†
  Story great, characterization a little on the weak side -- though the big robots are cool.
• Porco Rosso†
  Stylish, funny, exciting.
• Grave of the Fireflies†
  Very sad, which was a little unexpected since I didn't know much about it before watching it. Can be a little too slow in places though, otherwise it's very good.
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind†
  The story can get a little dense at times what with the various factions, but still really enjoyable, inventive and engaging.
• X-Men: The Last Stand†
  Opportunity, talent, money - all blown. Over 3 films X-Men has hinted of something great that could have been, this last one says "No, sorry - not going to happen". Bah.

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my tuppence worth

Keown and Lauren deserve to be suspended in line with a straight red card, everyone else should probably get a ticking off and a fine. Arsenal as a club should get a big telling off (including a fine) and a "we'll be watching you" from the FA.

Van Nistleroy should be taken up in a light aircraft and ejected over the Channel and Man Utd should be fined for encouraging a culture of cheating.

2 CommentsSeptember 24, 2003

A collection of things

Here's another list of useful things for the discerning interweb professional:

• Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
• The CSS Zen Garden
• Using CSS on HTML lists
• Well-mannered JavaScript and Flash
• Be a pro about styling prose (The Text Style Sampler is where it's at)

These links have been gathered over a period of time from places such as Kottke, Zeldman and maybe some others who I've forgotten about.

0 CommentsSeptember 20, 2003

Assimilation

I had lunch today with my man in the field MWK. He informs me that the NME is no longer in newspaper format and that the kids are into Whitesnake again. Good to know.

0 CommentsSeptember 18, 2003

requiescat in pace

But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.

Excerpt from A Soldier, Robert Frost

0 CommentsSeptember 17, 2003

The Red Hand of Ulster

That'd be the Red Hand of Ulster then. I was doing a grahic for some Lithuanians, Vytis (a knight on a white horse) and got to thinking about my own iconography. Now, all I know about this thing can be found on this page, that and it appears on the flag of Northern Ireland. Oh yes, and on the gable walls of a few houses round these parts. But I don't think we should let the ignorance of a few thugs intimidate us into giving up on these things.

Here, if you want it, is a scaleable copy [EPS] of the Red Hand image above.

See also: the Flag of Northern Ireland [Flash]

24 CommentsSeptember 11, 2003

Food

The BBC’s food section has some very nice (and some easy) recipes. I just thought you should be aware of this.

Also today I could have gotten £44357, if I could sell my soul to these people. 7% of the world has a purer soul than mine apparently; still, not to worry, purity is over rated.

Oh yes, and Marty mentions the Fibonacci Series. What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series? [requires Flash]

7 CommentsSeptember 10, 2003

The GIMP is not an option

Was going to be an upstanding citizen and buy Freehand and Flash MX. Found out would need to sell house in order to do so.

2 CommentsSeptember 5, 2003

No NME cool picks in my collection...

2 CommentsSeptember 3, 2003

Hulk say No!!!! Hulk SMASH screen!!!!

Links done in JavaScript. I mean, <a href="http://foo"> works for everybody, everytime. But no, smart arsed "Web Developers" have to justify their salary by making it more complicated. And URLs the length of your arm that look like some sort of unified field theory equation.

Yes, I am reading the Belfast Telegraph Jobfinder page.

I think that most sites are built to impress the person buying them, and most people buying web sites are too easily impressed by teeny fonts, trendy colours and needless movement. This means something that works well or, heaven forbid, works better than specified is a rare thing (it being appreciated from 'on high' is an even rarer thing).

Hence a lot of web sites end up being like a Vauxhall Corsa in Bangor, on a Sunday evening, lots of useless plastic with nothing of substance underneath.

7 CommentsSeptember 2, 2003

This isn't fun anymore

3 CommentsSeptember 1, 2003