February 2008 Archives
I hate that song.
Anyway, after noticing that the last few posts have been overly long resulting in a massive front page, I'm trimmed some of the older ones down (Lucky Soul For Christmas Number One! and A Selection Of Winter Photos) for the soul reason of making your life easier. How kind is Mr Xerox today?!
There is a new page available. I have an 'About HSX' page now, with links to various places and handy things you might want to know. Or not.
Speaking of which, I've now tidied up the main page, by moving the Music section (the Last.fm radio, recently played music and so on) out of the middle column into About HSX. And I've also tidied up most other pages by removing all the clutter on an individual entry - the statistics, categories, links etc. that are found on the main blog page aren't on any of the others. If I've worked things out correctly anyway!
The final big change is the removal of the photo slide from everything but the main page too, again in the interests of decluttering.
Smaller changes:
- The appearance of the RSS feed link and the Bloglines button to fit in with the rest of the far column. It always looked a litle out of place having a bullet point and the Bloglines button being right underneath. It's subtle,but isn't that what design is about?!
- Contact line added at the foot of each page.
One thing I wanted to make but so far can't get to work, is a page with a contact form on it. I'll keep trying!
The last time I saw him, he was pushing the rubber tractor...
...is just one of many examples of phrases that almost certainly are, or will become one, once you play about with this for a little while.
Brilliant.
I started writing this way back in December... but totally forgot about it.
And with there being just over 22 days until the 2008 Australian Grand Prix, I thought it'd be a good way to generate a small slice of excitment!
Here, then, are some wonderful photos from the 2007 Formula One season. Not every race is represented, nor every team or competitor.
I've chosen these because they grabbed me. Enjoy.
All copyright remains with their original owners.
Click for embiggenation.
Last year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, Voyage Of The Damned, (link contains a synopsis, in case you haven't seen it...) was a highlight of my TV viewing. Indeed, it attracted 50% of the viewers watching at that time - a feat which is quite rare in this multi-channel age I would have thought.
Anyway, the run up to the show being aired was shrouded in secrecy. We knew that it would guest star Kylie Minogue opposite David Tennant. we knew that it would follow on from series three's end, when Titanic crashed through the TARDIS walls. And... that was about it.
There were rumours of Woody Allen appearing in it, along with many others. But the BBC, quite rightly, kept its cards close to its chest. After all, if I'd known what would happen, it would have spoilt my viewing!
Anyway, wanting to find out some clues, The Telegraph went to Cardiff during the filming and interviewed some of the locals, trying to tease information out of them.
To cut a long story short, and to avoid plagiarism by blatantly copying the whole article (!), there is an interesting link between myself and David Tennant.
According to a barman at City Canteen, described as "Cardiff's uber-trendy media hang-out", Tennant's favourite drink is "a pint of Guinness with a shot of Tia Maria." Now, in my drinking days, this was my favourite drink too.
I was often ridiculed for allowing Guinness to be tainted in such a way, but it enhances the flavour of the drink and, obviously, increases the alcohol content!
Since then, I have stopped drinking altogether, cut out alcohol from my diet - another thing that surprises people when they find out - but to have a little link like that to someone I admire is great!
The Doctor & HSX: linked by drink!
How dare time steal the best part of two months from me.
I haven't written a lot recently. Not because I don't care, or that I forget about this place or anything. But because of time. January, and my 25th birthday, flew by in a haze of bill paying, work, sleep and various forms of creeping anxiety.
Therefore, I missed the New Year - or at least, saying Happy New Year on here to people. I hope it all went well.
Believe it, or don't, this is post number 199 on this particular incarnation of the blog.
I really wanted number 200 to be a joyous, wonderful, hilarious piece of original writing... but I've tried and, lately, it just isn't in me.
So, post number 200 will instead be about my link to a famous person. And I'm going to write it by tomorrow. Promise.
