Here’s what they are like now.
Might look short to you but I don’t normally have any white bits. They are surprisingly tough and already I am put off biting them. Heading for my first real nails in over 10 years.
Upfront catches: 100% free 6 x4 prints are available for collection in your nearest Jessop’s store. Alternatively you can pay for postage (99 p).
The offer is simple. You sign up for an account on the website. You upload your photos and the first twenty prints are yours free in the 6 x 4 size. Even better is when you recommend a friend you get another 20 free prints. So please if you feel interested by this offer email me at snapfish@davyson.com and I will refer you — getting the both of us 20 free prints each.
A fix! To make full use of your Task Bar in Windows you need to have the Task Bar unlocked and get rid of any empty toolbars you might have floating around. You do this by:
Bingo! You should be able to use the whole thing!
Due to a certain unfortunate event I find myself using Windows all of a sudden. Now I used to use it all the time so I am familiar with the interface and everything but … since getting used to using a Dock instead of a Task Bar I can’t understand why on Windows the Task Bar is so afraid to become full up. Why does it always have so much empty space?
To illustrate what I mean look at this image:
Then I open another application and:
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Each individual programs place on the Task Bar shrinks and the overall length of the Task Bar in use remains the same. Why?! What is the rest for? Is this just Windows being silly… or am I at fault here?
Petty spelling errors. Practice is a noun. Practise is a verb. So you might say for instance that you have to go and practise playing the recorder. But if you wanted to say that you needed more recorder practice you would use the C spelling. In the U.S. I am informed that for either meaning the C spelling is commonly acceptable. So if you are in doubt it is probably best to stick to putting a C in whatever the situation but if you want to be completely “correct” then remember if it’s a verb make it an S.
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And now here comes another big browser upgrade. I am all over the place right now with browsers. Firefox is the default but I was very into Flock when I first saw that and I think Safari looks nice and now… Opera 9.
I was just about to switch it to the default and blog about it when I loaded up WordPress and everything seemed to go wrong. I will have to look into whether this is persistent. The facts though as crystal clear. Opera is fast, feature rich, and nice to look it. I think I’ll go for it.
I have been getting a rather large amount of comment spam which tends to waste my time, and clutter my inbox. So I am have installed a quick plugin that will ask you to write 5 characters before posting. This make take you 3 or 4 seconds, but I hope you don’t mind too much. It helps to keep everything clean. As a bonus incentive comments are now posted before moderation by myself, since most spam will be cut off my the captcha test. I am using this plugin.
On the subject of spam I was pointed today to a site that turns spam mail into art on Google Blogoscoped. The picture shows an image that I made with one of the spam messages that I got today. Very nice indeed.
Yes, I’d call it “design”. At a push anyway.
Why is your blog ugly?
Because I made it that way. I provide readers with full RSS feeds for posts and comments. There is never any need for users to visit the site. They can apply whatever themes they like to the feed once they get it off the site.
That doesn’t answer the question. Why did you make it ugly?
I used to have a beautiful theme, Blue Horizon if you want to go and track it down. But I found that reading over my own posts when checking for spelling errors and the like was a very poor experience. The text was small, most of the page was wasted, it had novelties like tags, bookmarks, flickr photos and other nonsense. Basically it was not focused. I still use the very same theme I just removed the whole of the CSS file to replace it with:
body { margin-left:25px; margin-right:25px; font-size:16pt; text-align:justify; }
.feedback {border-bottom:1px black solid; padding-bottom:10px; }
img { margin:10px; }
I also deleted a few things I didn’t need anymore, but that was it. Simplicity. And I find it much easier to read now. I can see which links I have clicked (they go an ugly purple), I can see the links a mile off (they are bright blue), and I can see the text a mile off, it is pleasantly large. It is functional. I don’t care if you think it is ugly or even if it is ugly. This blog is all about the content, and like I say full feeds are available if you prefer something a little more pretty.