I’ve still not quite got my head around this Air business. Making desktop apps out of apps that already work perfectly well in a browser just seems a bit odd to me.
Anyway there’s a new one for Google Analytics out. It’s nice - it does exactly the same job as the site, but does it slightly prettier… Kind of pointless, but there you go.
Is there an actually useful Air app out there yet?
1 year ago • 0 notesIt’s not exactly new news now - depsite only happening yesterday - but there’s a new standards movement in town: The Email Standards Project.
Depsite some of the biggest names in the industry having an unparralelled hatred of fancy emails, I’ve alway kind of liked them.
“But Emails are for plain text!!”, they wail.
So bloody what!
Letters were plain text until someone doodled in the margin aqnd we ended up with graphic design.
HTML wasn’t intended for graphics - look where that lead too.
So hoorah let’s make the email client devs change their shoddy ways and give us a nice consistent platform to work from!
(Though I don’t hold out much hope of Google, seeing as they only seem to employ people who have never heard of standards…)
1 year ago • 0 notesThis is quite a cool little move by good ol’ M&S. You wouldn’t really equate them with quite nice online apps for designing your own custom shirt - but that’s what they’ve done.
From a very reasonable £30 - £49.50 you can choose you fabric, collar style, cuff style, sleve style, contrasting fabric, etc etc - then you enter your height, weight, collar size and they tailor one exactly for you!
I don’t like shirts (despite wearing them every day) but I’m very tempted!
1 year ago • 0 notesToday saw the proper launch of RCRD.LBL - a very interesting project for providing free, downloadable, legal, DRM free music.
It’s setup essentially as a sort of commercial über music blog really. There are some community elements, and widgets to spread the word.
With labels like Warp, Kompakt, and Modular thing look pretty tasty.
1 year ago • 0 notesFinally the BBC is starting to roll out proper podcasts - with music in and everything!
For ages they’ve had the likes of Moyles and Mills putting kind of crappy exteneded DJ chatter podcasts up… but now they’re expanding the shows out to loads of different peeps, with loads of different styles.
From 17 November we are promised the likes of Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone off of Radio 6.
My hopes are now for a Gilles Peterson podcast - that would be bloody awesome!
1 year ago • 0 notesApparently a school in Bexley, South-East London, has decided to ban it’s pupils from wearing football boots with studs because they are too dangerous.
Incredibly they are making the poor kids wear pumps (plimsolls) instead - beacuse skating around in mud like a spider on rolerskates is much less likey to crack legs in half.
Wearing footy boots as a kid was great, giving you a chance to feel like you really are Steven Gerrard or whoever… (in fact it’s still pretty good when you’re 28…)
Let’s face it football is a contact sport, and therefore dangerous - you may as well ban the whole bloody thing.
Maybe I shouldn’t have said that…
2 years ago • 0 notesI haven’t been posting much - anywhere - recently.
I’m not aplogising, I have proper reasons!
Well one really.
I am neck deep in hacking together the super duper Escape Crate V3.0!!
It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally settled on a design, and I’ve been mucho busy with slicing and dicing it into XHTML and CSS (with a spriklin’ of PHP).
in fact this post is kind of a tester for integrating tumbles into it…
It shouldn’t be long now… once this bit is done I’m like 90% there!!!!
2 years ago • 0 notesI really want to like the Fiery Furnaces.
Their debut EP was lovely.
Since then they seem to have found melody, rhythm and lyrics far to basic a concept for their obvious massive musical talent.
So these most staple of musical attributes are buried 15 feet deep under a thick steaming pile of what can only be described as dicking about.
Quite frankly I can’t be flippin bothered wading through all that crap to get to the nuggety goodness I know they produce. Such a shame.
2 years ago • 0 notesI was (still am really) a bit of a fan of the early noisy hardcore stuff of the the early 90s.
I’ve recently got hold of a couple of 808 State albums, and I’ve been lapping them up.
Completely separate to that I today discovered their website via the fantastic Dialated Choonz site and found a mahoooosive archive of loads of the guys radio shows from back-in-the-day. (I’m so street.)
Sifting through them will certainly keep me busy for a wee while.
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