Unintentionally Blank

Wow! I haven’t written here for ages! It’s not like I don’t have anything to say either, I have some views and thoughts on reset style sheets, accessibility for the hearing impaired, microformats and the length of time it takes to load a site, but I just haven’t had the time to update!

What have I been doing then? Well, my job has been keeping me busy and recently we have launched two new sites, River Island’s Style Insider and Big Brother’s Big Ears. Both were hard work and took a lot of effort from the whole team, but also include some of my first bits of Ruby on Rails. I’m quite proud of being part of the team that has set both these sites up.

I almost lost my iMac the other week too, ended up re-installing OS X and crossing my fingers hoping that I didn’t lose all my data. Thankfully, it’s all still here, but that was a heart attack I didn’t need.

So what now? Well, I’m going to start posting again, starting with an update to my style sheet switcher. Why? Firstly, it’s very old code, back from when I knew hardly anything about javascript (though it works, can’t take that away)! Also, Smashing Magazine are having a style sheet switcher competition and I fancy entering that too, who wouldn’t want the prize on offer? There’s two weeks to enter, so I better get cracking.

In the meantime, if you do fancy keeping up with me off of the blog, I am on Twitter, so follow me!

Bye for now.

It’s nice to know that life has a knack of knowing when to take you down a notch. Sure, I got a new job that’s just around the corner, traffic here is at the best it’s been and my rugby team were playing for the league title at the weekend, what could possibly go wrong?

Maybe I gave you a hint by mentioning the rugby, there is good and bad news. We won the game, we won the league. The bad news: I only played 10 minutes due to a misplaced tackle that caused me to twist my ankle in several wrong directions. A swollen leg, a trip to the hospital (my first time in an ambulance) and several hours later left me with a cast and still no concrete knowledge of what the real problem was. You see it is entirely possible, according to half the x-rays and half the doctors, that I had broken bones they had never seen broken before, everyone else said it was a nasty sprain.

Either way, it looks like my short walk to work has become even shorter as working from home outweighs the long journey on crutches.

I hope you had a good weekend, I spent mine getting plastered.

I have left my job!

It might seem sudden, but it is the right thing to do for me. Why? Because I have another job!

For the last 9 months, I have been working for the Land Registry. Nearly 10 months ago, I was surprised and delighted to have got my first job, regardless of what it was actually doing. It was money, experience and it got me out of the house. I commuted for the first month, but couldn’t stand it. I moved into London and have been reasonably happy since.

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Pray for good weather in the South West of England this weekend. I’m off to the Glastonbury Festival for the first time. I’ll be back next week, so don’t go anywhere.

Did you miss me?

Where have I been, I hear you ask? I have, in fact, spent the last week in Norway in and around Oslo. Why? Well, you know when a friend calls up and asks if you want to go to Norway in a couple of weeks time, you can’t say no! The rush of preparing and tying up other loose ends at home left me no time to write anything to be published whilst I was away, so this place has been a bit silent. I have, however, enjoyed a week of camping, beautiful sights, fantastic art and a theme park, so I can’t really complain!

Still, I’m back now, refreshed and reinvigorated, with new ideas and some new projects too (very exciting stuff in terms of personal and professional development). You should expect to hear from me again soon. In the meantime, I’ve got about 1000 new posts in my feed reader to get through and find out what I’ve missed in the last week.

Bye for now!