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Architecting CSS
A few methods to maintain and organise large and complex CSS files
(tags: css stylesheets design web tutorials)

Tab Mix Plus
'Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.'
(tags: firefox mozilla tabs tabmixplus browsers plugins tools)

Ring of steel divides Padua
A ten feet tall steel wall around a crime-ridden estate full of immigrants in Padua, Italy, splits local opinion.
(tags: italy padua immigrants social estates)

Long Live the Q Tag
A backward- and forward-compatible fix for the Q tag which IE/Win (surprise, surprise) would not normally render properly.
(tags: q tags css ie explorer windows [...]

We are leaving tonight to spend the weekend at Dr B.'s parents in rural Staffordshire. His mother is going for a hot air balloon birthday present flight tomorrow (weather permitting) and we thought we'd go and watch her take off. It will also be nice to go away for a couple of days: I need [...]

'My legs my legs - my lovely looking legs, check it out!'
Oh don't get me started on my legs: I don't think I was ever happy with them, and I have wasted so much time making lists of all that is wrong with them, list starting something like (but not necessarily limited to) this:

there is [...]

BBC One's new idents and logo
Based around the symbol of a circle, the new idents launch on Saturday 7th October 2006. Indian dancers and skateboarders are out - in come daredevil motorbikes and synchronised hyppos.
(tags: bbc logos identity idents tv branding)

Three-year-old buys car on internet
Little Jack used his parents' eBay account to successfully bid for [...]

Our lovely friend E. treated Dr B. and I to the opening night of the Ballet Boyz' 'Encore' at Sadler's Wells theatre last night.
I was thrilled to go, albeit slightly apprehensive about Dr B.'s reaction. He loved the Trocks, but would he dig Michael Nunn and William Trevitt's classically-infused flavour of contemporary dance?
He did. Sort [...]

Program your PVR online with TV Genius
It currently is in beta and works with any Windows Media Centre PVR but they are looking to support as many PVRs as they can.
(tags: tvgenius pvr tv recorders online web remote)

Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers
A list that includes some of the best ideas I embraced and raved about [...]

So after failing to go during the weekend, in the end last night after work I managed to check out the thousands of Barbie dolls that are going on auction at Christie's today.
There were dozens of lots and it was overwhelming. A whole childhood lusting over my cousin's dolls, and yesterday I was walking through [...]

Timorous Beasties wallpaper
Classical, timeless French toile - with contemporary London prints, 'Gherkin' and London Eye included. 100 pounds per 10m roll.
(tags: wallpaper london gherkin londoneye)

US hypoallergenic cats go on sale
These cats are not genetically modified cats but chosen because of a natural gene divergence in the DNA and selectively bred. Despite costing $3,950, there is [...]

I need to improve my time management technique big time. Freelance work commitments (a very welcome addition to my main 9 to 5 job) meant that I did not find time to go over to Kensington's Christie's branch to preview the huge Barbie doll collection that goes on auction tomorrow.
There was no time on Saturday, [...]

Priceshout.com
UK-based price comparison website with a web 2.0 social software flavour, that allows you to track product's prices and monitor the changes and additions in your RSS reader.
(tags: online uk shopping social priceshout compare)

Dynamic Drive CSS Library
Practical CSS codes and examples for menus, forms, containers, links, buttons…
(tags: css libraries dynamic reference examples web design)

PSD2HTML
Hand-coded markup to any specification in under 8 hours.
(tags: business web design html markup xhtml css services)

The Oneseat campaign
It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. Online petition to have it located only in Brussels.
(tags: politics europe eu petitions campaigns parliaments brussels strasbourg)

'Pack-a-day crisp habit' [...]

It's now official: Madonna's Confessions tour is the highest-grossing live show by a female artist ever. And if you think that the previous record holder, Cher's 'Farewell' tour, ran between 2002 and 2005, Our-Lady-of-the-Ker-ching's latest achievement in a matter of mere months is even more impressive.
Brugo has got a few audio files from Madonna's Phoenix [...]

The world needs to be alerted at once about the pure brilliance that is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I watched it last night and I am very much looking forward to next week's episode. It airs on NBC on Mondays (10 ET/PT). The pilot was repeated on Bravo last night, and then again [...]

Research carried out by the NHS Smoking Helpline found that 'Smokers spend �676 a year on their habit, before the cost of cigarettes is even taken into account.'
This means that I thought I had saved 9,138 pounds since I quit smoking over three and a half years ago, but the actual total over the same [...]

I did not watch any of lonelygirl15's video blog entries on YouTube when she was all the rage. Neither did I deem her worthy of my online time when t'internet was blazing with suspicion that she was the scripted product of Big Movie Moguls.
Now that the creators have revealed that she is in fact an [...]

Last week I have become the proud yet puzzled owner of 500 grams of quinoa.
I know that it's good for you, and that it's packed full of Omega-somethings, and the pack claims it is a healthy and nutricious replacement for pasta (which, despite my Italian origins, I cannot digest - euphemism for 'pasta gives me [...]

Bordee
New free service, built with Ruby on Rails, that lets anyone create a topic-specific message board for any domain name/web page on the internet.
(tags: application free social messages boards bordee rubyonrails)

I like lists. I have many lists. One of them lists all the books I would like to read in the immediate future.
I try and be realistic and keep the items on this reading list to under a dozen. Rather than go out and buy them all straight away (what, impulse buying? Me? You must [...]

Vintage Star Trek gets digital facelift
'CBS Paramount Domestic Television, a unit of CBS, is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show's 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-generated graphics.'
(tags: television cgi specialeffects startrek tv series)

Optimal width for 1024px resolution is 960
After you account for browser chrome and scrollbars, it turns [...]

Rather than facing The Pile Of Laundry That Would Not Fold Itself, yesterday morning I grabbed a shirt I found on the back of the couch and the only pair of jeans that have not been washed and therefore did not risk cutting into my flesh until the freshly-shrunk material relaxed back into a more [...]

Doctor Who spin-off set for CBBC
'The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC will star Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith opposite Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker between 1973 and 1976.'
(tags: doctorwho drwho elisabethsladen sarahjanesmith tombaker bbc cbbc spinoffs scifi sciencefiction)

UK immigration database
'7.5% of people living in Britain were born abroad. You can find out where [...]

I have just figured out that given a conservatively-estimated sixty-five years life span, we all end up spending a long time taking care of our teeth. A ridiculously long time.
We spend 99 days of our lifetime brushing our teeth (the recommended two minutes, three times a day).
And yet that is not enough, and we need [...]

Global obese now outnumber global malnourished
'globally, there are one billion overweight adults, and 300 million of them are obese; in contrast, about 800 million do not have enough to eat.'
(tags: nutrition statistics obese overweight weight fitness)

I have just bumped into a tree on my way to work.
It's not what you think: I had plenty of sleep last night, I ate a bowl of porridge for breakfast this morning, and I was looking forward to going to work (yes, unlikely as it may sound, I love my job).
But I have a [...]

Architecting CSS
A few methods to maintain and organise large and complex CSS files
(tags: css stylesheets design web tutorials)

Tab Mix Plus
'Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.'
(tags: firefox mozilla tabs tabmixplus browsers plugins tools)