Month: September 2001

Beer tonight with Paul F, Dave, Arron, Michael, DA, DAGS, Michelle, Dan, Kristian and DJ. Good fun. Now totally unprepared for tomorrow. Oh well.
Updates between now and Sunday night/Monday morning will be infrequent/nonexistent. Have a good weekend.

Readymeals – look great on the packet, look lovely when you pull them from the oven – yet look awful on your plate. Why? There must be a better pack design possible, so that you can get your meal out of the pack without turning it into a chewed up mess.

How do you make a happy Graybo? Simple: give him a new toy. Yep – my phone has arrived (finally), and I’m currently setting it up and charging it and soforth. If I have time before going to Ireland tomorrow morning, I’m going to set up wapblogger, so I can update this site from the phone. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Incidentally, I’ll be transferring the number from my old phone to my new one, but they say this can take up to 25 days (bah!) – I have a temporary number, and if you feel that you should have it, ask. Otherwise, call or SMS the usual number – I’ll check it daily.

Science can be scary:

• Universe may suddenly turn to jelly
• Enormous black hole at centre of galaxy
• British climate could become similar to northern Canada’s
• London to Sydney journeys in 2 hours could render in-flight movie obsolete
• Icelandic town plans to import crocodiles to eat waste from fish processing
• Mad German scientists develop environmentally-friendly bombs and missiles

Forgot to say yesterday – no TFF or AFF scores this week because no premiership matches were played due to the internationals. Normal service resumes this weekend.
Meanwhile, my team has a critical match at itsagoal.com today – I’m only one point ahead of the second placed team, and we meet today. Their form suggests it could be a tough match. Result later.

Got a lovely email from Simone this morning, now back in Australia. Sounds like her trip down there was less than pleasant (spending any amount of time in a confined space with five large lads from Aberdeen does not make for a good journey, in my view), but she is settling back in to life in her homeland, getting over the heartrending departure from Chichester. I’m sure she’ll be back one day (and we’ll all still be drinking in the bar!).

And my phone *still* hasn’t arrived. grr. Was hoping to take it to Ireland this weekend, but that prospect is looking bleak now.

Started work on the skins project this evening. The first target is to get neater code powering this site, with a proper linked style sheet – so far, all I’ve done is realise how messy my code is. The next stage will be to set this site up with a choice of one skin, which will be what you are looking at now. Hopefully, if all that works, you shouldn’t notice any changes at all.
Stage three is where the fun starts – then you’ll have the choice of this colour scheme, and also the old colour scheme. If I succeed in getting that working, I’ll add another one, two or three layouts (depending on how much energy I have), one of which will be the very old layout that used to be used prior to February this year (look up “old blog” in the archive pulldown menu in the nav bar to see what I mean).
The bad news is that those of you still using version 4 or older browsers will not be able to see any of this. I’m not quite sure yet how I’m going to deal with that issue – there aren’t many of you, but you do exist, and I’d hate to lose you (incidentally, you are already unable to see the navbar if you use Navigator 4.7 or older – just think how good this site would be if you upgraded!).
Anyhow, none of this is going to happen quickly. Continue watching this space.

It is always good to hear from someone you haven’t heard from in a while – inane chat this afternoon with Brooke on long-distance sneering, the merits of CSS, and whether Luke was responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Backstreet Boys.

Frisbee trivia (via Nico).