Ignite

So, theres been alot of hype surrounding bioshock and i purchased it today after beginning the preload today.

Quite recently i’ve been reading and hearing things from the yahoo ui team’s research about page loading times. One thing that i was waiting to hear all about was the effect the ever-growing mountain of script tags importing various javascript files was having on page load times, we’ve all noticed it, but these guys did the testing to prove it.

Came home tonight to a nasty sound, my biggest and newest hard drive has “The click” but its still giving me data (be it slowly), thank god! I was down at PLE this morning waiting for them to open so i could get a new one and now i patiently sit back and copy off the 120 or so Gigabytes of data that i didnt have room for on my other drives last night.

So the finalists just got announced for the WA Web Awards, wow, i’ve got some serious disappointment on my part for some of the finalists. Some of them are not what i’d consider to be 2007 Award Winning Material.

Yeah so i’m bored, i’ve been messing about with the blog for the past few days, upgrading k2, upgrading the flickr plugin. This just results in all my customisations having to be coded back in.

Been working on the car a bit, interesting developments, may have to get a new turbo thanks to the first pic below.

Theres a new arrival in our, my brother picked up a new cat last weekend, pic below.

Finally got the intercooler back fixed. It looks ok, it’s just a pity i didn’t get it welded before attempting silicone.

Aaand today i stepped on my O2 Xda Atom and broke it’s screen

Microformats are slowly becoming the norm amongst good web designers, if you have no idea what they are you can get more information at microformats.org. For those that know whats going on, heres a link to a microformats cheat sheet that has been put together by someone.
http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/cheatsheet/

I just came across blinksale, an online invoicing web app, very nice, very smooth, produces a good looking invoice and is quite customisable. Combine that with 88Miles, an online time tracking web app and we might just have something here.

Imagine being able to track your time on a various project, hit a button in 88Miles and have it start up a new invoice for you in blinksale and vice versa, opening up an invoice in blinksale could provide a link from the invoiced hours to the breakdown in 88miles, all online!