If you open your eyes…

August 27, 2008 – 12:41 pm

…while walking around your local town for lunch (as I just have)

I think you’ll find the Uk seems to be 90% fat, ugly, stupid people
And a lot of parents that just leave their kids to run around on the streets unsupervised while they get slightly fatter and stupider in fron of the TV with a microwave meal

Where did the world I remember from when I was 18 dissapear too?


Womens fashion

August 6, 2008 – 9:06 am

What the hell has happened to womens fashion in the last few years

I was just reading an article from Digg (here) and realised im not alone hating most of womens current fashions

Every day I walk around my local town for lunch and rarely see a good looking woman. Occasionally I will see someone who stands out, someone who genuinely wears clothes that flatter there natural shape, and it makes me smile.
Because they stand out in a sea of trend-following sheep

Fake Tan / Foundation
You shouldnt be orange, ever. Its just not a good look. Use a little foundation if you want to even out your natural tones. Dont put it on with a trowel!

Massive Sunglasses
This one has always confused me, its like half the female population of the world want to be Paris Hilton. Yet every woman I speak to think she’s a brain dead bimbo whore. So errrr yeah good role model there

Belts around your rib cage
I dont get it. They’re not holding anything up. Are they supposed to make you look slim with big boobs? Wearing them over a pregnancy dress makes me want to gouge my eyes out

Ugg boots / Crocs
No no no no no no no no no no no no arrrgghhh

3/4 Length trousers
I have spent a lot of my life in a pub with mates talking about women, and I have never once heard someone say “You know what turns me on about women, not their arse or tits, but there calf muscles”
Why show off the bottom quarter of your legs??

Shorts over tights
Jesus nothing winds me up more than this - usually accompanied by boots of some sort
I once asked a girl why and she said it was too cold for shorts. Well when men are too cold for shorts we wear trousers - it works out pretty well for us and doesnt combine 2 completely different weather-based items of clothing in a retarded way
If I went out this saturday wearing my board shorts over the top of my jeans Im fairly sure I’d be locked up for being a mental

Maybe im getting old? :)


Writing semantic HTML & CSS

August 4, 2008 – 10:11 am

Does anyone else sometimes find a few things dont fit into proper semantic HTML & CSS

For instance Im writing a simple 5 page “about us” style website for my company, and on one of the pages there is an image halfway down the content that needs to be aligned to the right

So… how do you do that semantically?

I could do…

<div style="text-align:right"><img src="..." /></div>

But I dont like EVER using inline styles
So then maybe I could do…

<div class="align_right"><img src="..." /></div>

But thats not really good use of CSS calling a class “align_right” because what if I suddenly one day wanted that to be left aligned?
But I cant really cause it something else because it isnt really anything at all - its “just” an image, its not a header or a product or anything really…

So then maybe I could do…

<img src="..." class="align_right" />

Which probably offends me the least as it isnt adding extra markup for no reason, but then if I float:right the image all the rest of the content starts wrapping around it - and it looks wrong. Plus with nothing clearing that float I risk IE6 having a full blown meltdown trying to render it

*sigh*

Any suggestions?