Where was I? It's one of those questions that makes you wonder if you need an alibi, and I've been asked it by Sarah. She wants to know where I was a year ago, 5 years ago and 10 years ago. Bit nosey hey? Ah well, here goes, briefly:
Where was I one year ago?
Working full time as a hotel manager, and part time doing a few freelance web jobs. It was around this time last year, shortly after returning from a 3 month absence following surgery, that I decided I didn't like that job any more and so packed it in and went to work somewhere else for several thousand a year less. Other than that I was spending far too much of my time on web design and internet forums, and drinking beer.
Where was I five years ago?
Happily doing the job mentioned above, along with the (very) odd bit of web work. I was also doing a bit of student tutoring on the side.
Where was I ten years ago?
Spending most of my time being a student at Liverpool University, in the second year of a biochemistry degree, and the rest of the time being a layabout working at a holiday camp in North Wales.
Fascinating stuff, huh? 
Apparently I'm supposed to inflict this on 3 other people. I choose Martin Paling, Kev Leitch and Toxie.
Posted in General, on January 25, 2006. Comments Off
And will be for a few days more. I'll carry on as and when I can.
In the meantime, has anyone else noticed that Firefox has a display bug when resized to 800×600 pixels? My vertical scrollbar vanishes (irrespective of the site I'm on) at that resolution and doesn't appear until it's resized to at least 900px.
Amended: looks like upgrading to WP 2.01 decided to break my sidebar headers 
oh what joy. I suppose it serves me right for hacking the functions files 
Amendment 2: Sidebar fixed 
Don't mind me, I just want to test a few ideas.
There's a new craze sweeping the interweb folks, one that involves you earning money while you sleep. Yes, AISs are the new Hula Hoop™ with hundreds of people jiggling their online hoops in the hope of striking it rich. Not one to be out done I've decided to join the movers and shakers to see if I can make my first million before the age of 21, erm, well …
Tribal Tattoos is the road to riches being taken by Sarah and I. It's also a road that we've put a bit of effort into - laid a few paving stones, dug a trench here and there, planted some shrubs. You know, tidied it up a bit. Amongst other things we've researched the market, sourced a supplier who's happy with the concept and the opportunity to have another outlet for his artwork, restructured the generated template with standards compliant markup and CSS, built a simple shop, and so on - in other words we've invested a little time, effort and money into the venture and, most importantly in my opinion, we tried to make sure that we offer something of value to any visitors that drop by.
We've also got a number of ideas that will mean we continue to work on it from time to time - including improving the site's accessibility (getting rid of the pixel widths would be a good start); adding links to the directories from the 600+ sites that we have to sift through; adding more flashes to the tattoo shop and sourcing other products, such as the ebook we currently have under production.
Posted in General, on November 21, 2005. Comments Off
Yes, I know that when you have a weblog the idea is that you'll not only post to it but also make sure that you finish designing it. I'm also aware that I've been a bit lax in these areas, but that's just me - when left to my own devices I tend to leave until tomorrow rather than do today, with pretty much everything imaginable. Maybe I'm just lazy? Probably, but I have been a bit busy too - besides moving house and holding down a full time job, I've been involved in a couple of projects with Sarah and Paul, along with some client work for Sarah's company. So, as you can see, I haven't been totally bone-idle this time around
