Doll makers!!!

Does anyone remember these???

Handy links

A few more handy links:
MandarinDesign.com – Cool ideas for making your website have a magazine layout (CSS)
Dapino Blog – Some cool vectors. Also check out their main page, beautiful design
PickBee Icons – Lots of free pixel icons
Colour Lovers.com – Web colour trends
Obdisian Dawn Brushes – Beautiful (free) Photoshop brushes, work for mac too!
Squidoo Brushes – An index of sites offering really gorgeous Photoshop Brushes.
Bullet Madness – Free bullets.

Airport bug

I’ve been having problems with my Internet connection for about a month now. One day it seemed to suddenly go wrong. I’m on a Mac (10.4.11) and using Airport, and it just started to cut out the connection. Some days it cut out every hour, some days every 30 seconds and it was sooo frustrating! I kept having to connect via the airport again and again. So, after spending many hours on the phone to BT, I concluded that it was my computer. I searched on a few forums and realized that LOADS of people were having the same problem – all on 10.4.11. So I upgraded the version, downgraded the version. No change. I was considering reinstalling the system until I stumbled upon this article AND IT WORKED! Amazing! If you have the same problem then try it! I did get a bit worried when it took so long to restart my computer, but ever since then i’ve been able to surf trouble-free Apparently the version 10.4.11 has some airport adjustments that completely mess it up, upgrading doesn’t help. Apple still haven’t fixed it.

I’ve been reading loads of books recently. Well, i’ve started loads of books and about half-way through them all because i’ve been so busy lately. ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‘ by Mark Haddon is an amazing book. Its the diary of a boy with Aspergers, and is amazing how his mind works, really interesting with unexpected twists. I’m also reading Cecelia Ahern’s ‘A Place Called Here’ about a detective who goes missing, and ends up in a world where all missing things (and people) go. Its an amazing concept and worth reading. After watching ‘PS I love you‘ at the cinema, I came across the book in a charity shop, haven’t read much of it yet but again, very good. I can’t read boring books. ‘Left Behind‘ by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins is also good. I am also reading Sue Townsend’s ‘Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction’. I read the first couple of books in the series years ago when Adrian was 14 or something, then I found this book and he’s like 35 with kids!! I can’t believe she is still making these books, they are still pretty funny. The final book I am reading is ‘Its not how Good you are, it’s how Good you want to be’ by Paul Arden. You have to stick your business head on to read this, it does it’s best to tell you how to be a successful business person.

Expage and Geocities

I have been musing over old memories in the past couple of months. Does anyone remember the rubbish old expage sites everyone had around the year 2000? Oh how i loved them. And hated geocities. It was a kind of rivalry for the young computer geek generation. We all signed eachothers guestbooks with comments running along the lines of ‘gr8 site, love the layout. Visit my site and dont forget to sign the guestbook! PS: Wanna do a link exchange?’ And the best sites had the highest number of hits and the most link exchanges. Guestbook entries were gold. I know this all sounds very wierd to most people, but does anyone remember?

Wow i probably was the saddest teenager.

I came across a printout of an old website i did when i was 15. It was from e-lusions.com (my first domain!) and was a div layout over a mystical image with fairies and stuff on it. I can honestly say it was better than any website i can do now. I’ll have to post the image here one day.

Its funny how if you stop doing a hobby it takes a long time to get back into it. Fine Art which i did at college would be difficult to get back into. Does anyone else get that? Or perhaps its something to do with learning when you’re young?

Speaking of past times, does anyone remember Pogs and Slammers?! Or Power rangers, or Saved by the Bell? Or the old Goosebumps books – I remember them being amazing, until i went on holiday last summer and found one at the old cottage we were staying at. I read it in about an hour, it was rubbish. Say Cheese and Die or something, i cant remember.

I’m only 20, i’m sure when i’m 40 i’ll be talking about the old Nintendo Wii’s, I’m a celebrity and Harry Potter books.