Then read on. I have lots of unfocused waffle for you. Web news first. I know I said that the Simplified Standards site would launch around about now, but owing to work/life commitments, I’m gonna have to put it on the shelf for a month or three.
To all of you who are emailing, SMS-ing, Aim-ing, using pigeons or whatever, I offer this apology: I am currently 100% “up to my neck in it”, and as such can only reply to client emails at the moment.
With all this talk of logos, I’ve neglected to keep you informed of anything else. So, by way of apology, here’s a news bulletin featuring Steve Sharpe, Oasis, Black Convoy, Project Facade, Simplified Standards and 35,000 Mancunians.
In the latest of John Oxton‘s pub conversations that you can eavesdrop, the big man has decided to ask me seven and a half questions.
I went to my Mam’s house the other day, and ended up in the attic trying to find some old tat she needed. In a corner of the roof I rediscovered, packaged carefully under dust sheets, all my old toys. Lots of Matchbox cars, a Big Trak, stupid cuddly toys and (yawn) board games.
I need your advice again, dearest readers. I’m currently mid-way through writing my chapter for a forthcoming book about blogging. It’s the first time I’ve put together anything so lengthy to a definite publisher’s deadline, and it’s my first real attempt at combining XHTML, CSS, PHP, images and plain English in print. What’s more, I’m actually trying to make it interesting, light-hearted, and dare I say, funny.
Yes, it’s yet another end-of-year overview. Well, a selfish list. So, let me take a stroll through the year that was and try and make some sense of it from a work, play and culture viewpoint.
Time to put the blog to sleep for the festive period. In a break from the usual sitting at home with the parents, watching endless soaps on TV and sweltering from a wave of central heating, Emma and I are spending Christmas in Scotland. We’ve bagged a beautiful cottage for a few days in Glensheil, just a few miles from the Isle of Skye.
After the three day turnaround of version 1, we’ll be unveiling version 2 of our Libertines build in the next few days, full of new features, no frames, valid code, accessible forms and all hopefully before the band splits up.
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