Fred Bradley's diary

Haven't used this blog recently!

hmm... i see the blog page template is still a little broken (at the time of writing).

Anyway, on to the point at hand. I notice that the BBC have go and redesigned their TV pages, as part of the ongoing BBC2.0 Project. 

Anyway, have a look at the header design for the bbctwo tv page. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo) - notice anything similar about that and the new designs at UPSU.

I can assure you that UPSU has had that styled font for way before these BBC pages went live. .. I wonder if the inner drop shadow is just a craze that everyone is going through, or whether there is some kind of link!? - who knows!

[PS. I forgot how difficult it is to use this blog system using Safari... I'll add an image and links in when I load up firefox a bit later!].. 

A warning for any Microsoft geeks, who have already got a copy of Vista!! ^{(and use their iPod!)}

Apple released a document yesterday warning Windows iTunes users to "steer clear of Vista until the next iTunes release".

Apparently there are many security issues specifically to do with iPods, for example if you "Safely remove hardware" it will completely re-configure your iPod, songs don't work, etc, etc.

For more info head over to Slashdot and read "this article" Also, if your are interested, Here is the official document put out by Apple yesterday.

However, In the words of the Apple Advertising bosses. "Why upgrade to Vista, when you can upgrade past it?" 

So, I've just finished watching the Waratah's play the Lions in Jo-Burg. I do think that the Tah's didn't play their best game. But I was extremely please to see that Kurtley Beale, "the Australian Schoolboy sensation" according to some, former St Joseph's College Boy, and Aussie schools captain.

He is one of the many 'newbies' at the HSCB Waratah's, who are Lachlan Turner (Also one of last year's schoolboys, and former GPS Newington School boy), Jeremy Tilse (former Joeys boys), and just recently have added former Joeys and Aussie Schools captain, Patrick McCutcheon.

Kurtley is currently in a spot of bother as a court has ordered him to pay $1500 for a drunken driving, without a license charge. For an offense he apparently committed about a month ago, in his home town of Mount Druitt.

He will hopefully be the opening fly-half for the Waratah's game next weekend, as I didn't really see anything overly special about the player to opened today. "Han...." I forget his name. 

Kurtley is also a very high possibility for the France World Cup in the Autumn. With the Wallabies head coach, John Connolly, saying he is a high contender [to replace Stephen Larkham].

Watch this space! 

Now I'm aware that Alex and others regularly sit in
front of their funky little computers (if they need to
donate a MacBook they know I'm here!) and jot down
a few bits of code, etc.

I've now been using UPSU.net much more regularly,
- as a tool for blogging, and just generally reading it,
and I've come up with a few things that might be of use. 

Firstly, this blog business. It would be quite useful if
there was a link to 'write to my blog' at the top of the
screen, instead of having to scroll down the bottom!

Secondly, after using my own Joomla! site I've learnt
and the com_'s mod_'s and bot_'s that come with it! -
One particular bot_ that i've found really good helps
with slides and tabs (within content items (AND BLOGS) ).
You can basically use it when ever you want in the same
way that the mosimage and mospagebreak work (ie
inside those funky little brackets! ({these things}) You
can download the bot_ at
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1046/Itemid,35/
I love this bot_ personally, because I find that a great
way to put things in brackets in content items is to
put it in a 'slide' - eg if I want to go waffling on about
something that, lets face it, the majority of people
won't want to read, then it's nicely controlled away,
and if they do want to read it all they have to do is
click on the slide, and out it pops.  

And finally, in addition to all this 'digg this' and 'del.ic.ious' stuff
- which quite frankly I've never heard of until these funny
images came up at the bottom of content items.
Can we put a 'share to facebook' share button attached
to each content item, and photo gallery / photo! It's very easy,
just one line of code. 

Here:

html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http://www.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http://www.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } Share

<!--START FACEBOOK.COM SHARE BUTTON -->



<script>function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}</script><style> html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http://www.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http://www.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } </style> <aAbout 97 more words in this entry