Not too sure about that comment really, but I have been mucking with this for an age. As I am sure most do I am beginning with some rubbish about setting up the page. So I will just skip all that and say that it is a work to progress on. And soon.
It is well past 00:00 GMT and in fact my Scottish friends are no doubt awake, fortunately for them they are blissfully un-aware of the existence of this page, and they owe me for that.
A note that might be of interest to the net-geekers out there who do not already know this… Pinot Noir makes an excellent companion to the introspection and self-loathing that accompanies an endeavor such as this. And by ‘self-loathing’ i mean that sense of competition and under-achievement that makes someone spend 18 hours on the spur of the moment thought that ‘setting up a blog would be a FANTASTIC idea.
On a Sunday. On a HOLIDAY Sunday.
The annoyance of not having the domain-name propagate in the first 12 hours was over-shadowed completely by the effort and frustration (minor, really) in trying to find a set of colours that wasn’t completely vile to look at, or conversely so bland that it made you want to gouge your very own eyeballs out and hurl them into the compost bin. I mean seriously, we live in a design society surely, who can call thin black type on white BG stylish?
It may work well enough on paper… but then do not many things ‘work well on paper’ and then not at all in real life? Exactly.
In fact it took far less time to establish a large set of header images than it did to make the text light on a dark background. For those who do not know already I actually have some experience with HTML, going back a few periods of time in fact… and yet i searched and try-and-errored my way to what i have now… for 6 bloody hours?!
Such is the way. You see the item. You covet the item. You research the item but somehow manage to ignore the glaring flaws. You purchase the item.
You start to think you are going to be driven MAD by the item and it’s failure to perform even remotely as advertised.
Sigh. I must stop now. I am going on too much about this. I need to refill my glass.
good night