Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2006

Oh the irony. After writing up the night class fiasco I arrive at work to find an advert for the summer courses from Liverpool University. Just off to check in the mirror. I’m back. It doesn’t say “mug” on my forehead. I’ll keep my money. Only 50 minutes till second part of CSI. Something to […]

How Not to Teach

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Well tonight was the last night of a night class that I can only describe as a complete none event. Twenty weeks that allegedly focused on Creating Fictional Worlds. It said so in the title. The prospectus mentioned world building. It mentioned Fantasy and Science Fiction. What it didn’t mention was that that all the […]

Background Images Revisited

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Well I had a second stab at a background image. This one actually has more going on in it but I faded it all a lot closer to white so it’s not so in your face. I’ll see how I feel about it in the next few days. It already has a few bits of […]

No Plan Survives Saturday

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Well today was supposed to be a shopping, washing and site content day. It turned into a sleeping in, shopping, washing, php, xhtml and css day instead. I now have breadcrumb trails coded. Both sorts. And I’ve validated my XHTML and CSS at W3. I’m going to play with another ideas I had for a […]

A Little Perl of a Script

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

We were supposed to be going out for a drink from work tonight but it got cancelled 🙁 So instead I spent a few hours this evening playing with a Perl script I used back on my old spodbox site called Groan. I’d forgotten how much fun it was to see what sort of weird […]

Civ IV Not So Bad

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I’ve played a few more games through of Civ IV and I’ve decided I like it after all. Playing it on a harder level that actually challenges me makes it a lot more interesting. Thinking back when I first played Civ it was a hard slog even on its easiest level to start with. The […]

Real Life More Unbelievable than Fiction

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

This news story from the BBC tickled me. I know it’s really potetially serious but it just sounds like it came out of a sitcom set in a school. School’s WWII bomb polished off

Content, Content, Content

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

After watching CSI last night (finally this season seems to have gotten going with last night’s episode) I set to work pulling content for my new site together. Some articles I wrote for Valkyrie, some stuff I wrote for defunct web sites, some of my pictures and some stuff from my old web site. Then […]

No Bifrost 2006

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

As readers of the SFSFW’s mailing list will now know we’ve had to cancel our annual show this year 🙁 The hall we’ve used for several years hiked the price and couldn’t supply us with the facilities we needed. After a two month search we haven’t found a replacement venue. So no Bifrost 2006 but, […]

Battleship Potemkin Moment