Archive for February, 2006

Anglesey Abbey

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Anglesey Abbey


Last weekend, as well as relesing Gossip 0.10 I also managed to get out of the house to see Anglesey Abbey winter gardens which Sue said is quite beautiful this time of year. Of course we had to wait a couple of weekends for some good weather, since it isn’t on tap here in Britain. So my gallery has more aesthetics for all to enjoy :)

Gossip 0.10

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Gossip Roster

I managed to finally get Gossip 0.10 out!

I vowed to Kris I would do releases more often, for one thing, people kept telling my about bugs fixed over a month ago. So from now on, I will try to release monthly on average.

Everything was pretty smooth except for the first crash in a long time from Evolution (which is why I sent the mail announcement twice).

Update: The announcement with a list of changes can be found here: http://lists.imendio.com/pipermail/gossip-dev/2006-February/008508.html

Browser Thumbnails, Site Change & Updated Gallery

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Browser Thumbnails

Recently I decided to try IE7, since I was so pissed off with IE not supporting PNG transparency and the CSS problems compared to other browsers. The reason was to see if I should be bothered about making my home page fully compatible with IE7 or not.

In the process, I discovered that IE7’s beta 2 has support for thumbnailing pages you are currently visiting (which is pretty cool) and then I read an announcement regarding Opera’s latest and greatest supporting it too. After trying out IE’s new feature, I thought it was superb, until I found out about Reveal (a Firefox extension) which does exactly the same thing. The best thing about the Revel is that it is overlayed onto the current page you are on, instead of having to switch to another tab (as you would in IE). Plus it allows you to search all pages so you can quickly find the one you want to switch to! Well impressed!

Site Change

It is time to renew my site http://www.bytejunky.net and I decided that the name was pretty crap, so came up with another one http://www.curlybeast.net/ :)

Updated Gallery

Not a great deal of new stuff really, and mostly family related due to the high number of birthdays this time of year and of course we have just had Christmas, but there are some scenic shots:

I think Sue is getting tired of me taking pictures of her with the new camera though:


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