Ah yes

Ah, that was it. Is it me, or is BlogRolling having problems registering when a page has been altered? I normally use their ping page in order to make sure d4d™ comes up as updated, but since Thursday apparently none of the blogs I read have changed. Which doesn’t sound right at all.

Brain-spasm

Don’t you just hate it when you know you were wanting to write something, and whatever it was just dive-bombs right out of your brain again? That’s what’s just happened.

I’d got something in my head to write about, then the landlord came round for a flying visit – as predicted, it really was a “check the walls are all there, and that nothing’s been trashed” walkthrough – and I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to gibber about. It’s frustrating. I’ll remember what it was halfway down the line to Berkshire, and then forget again just in time to post it.

Blah

There are times I hate living in Manchester. Went to bed at about 2am – OK, that one I can’t pin on Manchester, particularly. By 3am there was some off-his-head scallie wandering around on the street outside yelling into his phone (I assume) and being a pain in the arse.

Eventually a passing police car stops and basically asks him what the fuck he thinks he’s doing, particularly as he was also wobbling down the center of a fairly busy road. Knobby then assumes that someone called the police, and proceeds to spend the next two hours walking up and down kicking on gates and walls, throwing stuff at doors, that kind of thing. At this point logic would dictate “i’m doing this and no-one’s called the police back, so perhaps they didn’t when I was just being a loud obnoxious gobshite” – but no, with various yells and bashes, the entire street is getting hassle for (I assume) broaching his human rights to be a cunt at 3am.

Eventually someone obviously did call the plods back (can’t think who that might’ve been. Honest. *whistles innocently*) at which point they bounced his head off the door of the police car. 5 am. I’ve had three hours sleep. And once my fucking useless darling lovely landlords have visited to check I haven’t blown the place up, I’m off down to Berkshire. In short, right now, I’m fit for fuck all.

Bye

It had to happen, really – Piers Morgan has left the Mirror.

Successful

It’s been a pretty good day, all things considered. Compared to what a complete rancid ballsup yesterday was, this has definitely been calm after the storm. And not a blockquote in sight

• WordPress downloaded, installed, and basically set up. Check
• Photo portfolio CD and images done, on both CD and prints. Check

(by the way, 7’x5′ prints fit perfectly in a DVD case, if you’re sending them with a disc)

• Portfolio and covering letter posted Check
• Necessary birthday cards bought, written, and posted Check
• Invoice completed, signed, and posted Check
• d4d™ redesign and upgrade begun Check

Yes, it’s been a good day.

And so it continues

Hmmm, I think that with this redesign malarkey, I may actually take a semi-retrograde step. One thing that’s bugged me since I put CSS into d4d™ has been the right hand box, and the way it cuts off. It’s trivial, but it annoys me.

So, rather than doing a pure CSS template, I think I’m going to have a hack about, and use a basic table to hold everything in place, and then the main content will still be CSS styled. I’m just not going to use absolute positioning for everything, because it’s a pain in the arse. In theory it also might make the transfer of old pages a bit easier to – simply plugging the content out of its current table cells, and slapping it into a new template. That’s the current thinking, anyway.

In addition, I’m going to use some include files, so that I don’t have to nork about with loads of file changes next time I do this. (And yes, if I carry on d4d, there’ll be at least one more redesign) I’ll probably do a lot of work on this over the weekend – I’ve a shedload of travelling planned again, so it’s likely that I’ll have enough opportunity to get quite a bit done in that time.

Monday may prove interesting…

1,700

Chuff. According to my new toy, the Blogger profile, this is the 1,700th post here on d4d™ Somewhere just north of 202,000 words, and somewhere in the region of 180,000 page views. Not bad going at all. I wonder where the future will lead? Particularly regarding the contents of the 1,699th post, just below…