Originally, I had planned to fully redo this site over the summer. Start from scratch, completely, and rebuild. You were supposed to arrive one day to find it entirely black with black and white photos of models posing in little clothing, for example, or a fantastic Web 2.0 interface, or little virtual worlds delivered in high quality video graphics.
Then a couple of things happened. First, I found I was busy for large chunks of the summer doing silly things like earning money. Second, even if I could design those things, you’d probably see them rolling out in the year 2020 when everyone else in the entire world has already got little virtual worlds delivered in high quality video graphics. But most importantly, I actually quite liked the design already. Well, it worked for what I wanted to do, and the whole thing took a lot of work to put together in the first place, so why throw the baby out with the bathwater?
The result is what you see before you now. (If you don’t, press Ctrl and F5 together to force refresh your browser and insist on downloading the new stylesheet.) Aside from some funky new colours and deft reorganisation of content, the main change for the user is the new emphasis on photos. It’s no Flickr, but thanks to a little bit of software from Flash Nifties photographs which were previously hidden away in blog archives should gradually make it to the light of day again, thanks to revamped galleries and randomised slideshows on the homepage.
There’s still more to do, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the changes have broken some things, but I hope the new look proves satisfactory. And, naturally, it is utterly unrelated to the new RV design, as ever.
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Rollercoasters!
Happy Family Fun Time (TM)
(Never far from an unimpressed look)
I know I’m cool nonetheless
Oh, yeah, scenic views!
Erm.. ur.. alcohol?
No caption can adequately describe this
A few things about this holiday…
- We found a sweet shop, as pictured, which was the most glorious collection of sweets and chocolates you could possibly ever imagine. Eventually, I chose honeycomb, but it was a tough one.
- We played Monopoly three times. I was bankrupted first. Three times.
- We stopped for a night in Cardiff on the way back, and managed to take in Doctor Who filming locations, the Doctor Who exhibition and the Torchwood fountain thing. That’s what I call a family geek-out.
- Tasha’s iPod entertained us throughout the long car journeys, as did both parents believing Afroman to have released the popular novelty song When I Got Hot
- Wales is cool!
Hello!
Our ulta-smart algorithm has detected that you’re looking for a blog entry. Unfortunately, Dominic is currently on holiday in Wales and is seemingly unable to provide any. How about a link to Alix Wilton Regan‘s website instead? (She’s my cousin, and the exciting launch of her website was singularly neglected from my last post. Oops!)
I’m not really up on the whole acting world but, y’know, if you happen to be an influential casting director you should phone or something. Go on, take my advice, I give it so freely!
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Caption Contest!
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OK, so there is wireless Internet in our cottage. Won’t blog much – it’s a holiday 
– but here are a few photos from the beach. Enjoy!
Blood, sweat and tears
Our beautiful creation
Recreational hazards
Book courtesy of Saoirse, top courtesy of Andy
…I mean, it’s not, is it? Travelling to Birmingham has taught me that, actually, London is a little bit hotter than there – one or two degrees – but tomorrow might open my eyes a little further since we’re setting off on a family holiday to [drumroll] Wales!
I do pay attention to Josie’s blogs, so I expect rain and coldness. It should be fun though – assuming we don’t drive each other mad in the car – to have a proper, relaxing break. It does make me laugh how technology has grown around us: a few years ago, we had to compromise as to which programmes we would record to fit on a 3 hour videotape. Now, with Heroes pre-watched on BBC 3 and the rest of the library set in a few button clicks, we’re setting off accompanied by mobiles, a walkman (jeez, get with the times), MP3 player, DVDs, an iPod, some speakers, a laptop (with Media Centre remote, naturally) and lots and lots of chargers. And just in case we’ve missed anything on TV, the new BBC iPlayer beta will fill us in, right?
Perhaps this holiday won’t be a proper, relaxing break after all 
and perhaps I won’t get any much-needed reading done after all! Ooh, I must though, Saoirse has a gun to my head. [Goes to pack another book.] I’m also packing my History options which Cambridge sent me, in the hope that I’ll be able to make a decision in the happy holiday atmosphere.
Love to all! Especially you.
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