Well I’ve finally finished watching all of the Star Wars films - through from episode 4 to episode 6 and then the prequel episodes too. They are great films and in some ways very powerful - probably my favourite quote out of all of the films came in the last one I watched (Revenge of the Sith), where Padme says “So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause.”
Anyway, a bit of YouTube surfing led me to this video where Darth falls back in love with someone - enjoy!
Well this is going in a category called “Bi-weekly websites” although it seems that I never post often enough to this category to justify the term “bi-weekly”.
Anyway, we’ve been using a new website at college called How The Market Works - it’s definitely worthy of it’s name. Not only does it explain the basics of the stock market in easy-to-understand language, but it has a really really fun stock market game where you invest in real stocks and make or lose virtual money (Believe me it’s addictive).
Today has to be one of my worst days in a very long time - what can be worse than having a hole bitten through your fairly new contract phone (2 months into the 18 month contract), having a dog tear a hole in your jeans, having to see your dog limp around in pain as well as attempting to talk sense to an arrogant, self-righteous creep who won’t accept any blame on his part?
That’s been my day, pretty much. In brief, I was walking my two dogs, Bingo (an 8 year old black and white border collie) and Tim (his 2 year old son) on a regular walk I do through a local woodland, when I saw 2 small dogs, probably terriers, running around in a field next to the wood. They were quick to notice me and my dogs and soon enough were coming up to them and sniffing them (as dogs do). Then things got violent and they began attacking each other. Tim was on his lead at the time and hence couldn’t actually escape from the terriers, who wasted no time attacking his underside and his private areas (ouch!) Read the rest of this entry »
Windows XP may be a 7 year old operating system but it is still widely used, and often preferred, to Windows Vista. However, Microsoft have still decided that they will cease all sales of the OS (Operating System) on June 30th and officially stop support sometime after this date.
While it is inevitable that Windows users will have to upgrade sooner or later, XP has been on the whole a user friendly, compatible OS that has remained incredibly versatile for it’s age. In my opinion, Microsoft should continue to sell Windows XP for users that prefer it, but put emphasis on selling Windows Vista and preloading most systems with it, just as it is doing at the moment.
If you agree, then sign the Save XP petition at InfoWorld!
If you live in the UK, then it’s hard to miss the controversy that the Archbishop of Canterbury has caused by what he said on BBC Radio a couple of days away. For the uninformed, the Archbishop said that he thought it was “unavoidable” that some aspects of Sharia (Islamic) law were adopted here in the UK to “retain social cohesion”. Of course, just about all parties in parliament have jumped on the bandwagon, distancing themselves from his comments with some even calling for him to resign.
As per usual, the BNP (British National Party), a bunch of racist scum, are having a field day purposely misinterpreting and broadcasting his remarks simple to gain further support for their Neo-Nazi policies.
Sharia law is a practical code of ethics/law that some Islamic countries use to live out Islam in their daily life. On the whole, it gets bad press because it doesn’t treat women as equal to men and it even supports public executions and whippings. Read the rest of this entry »
This problem caused me a lot of pain and some headaches - how could I create a footer on a page that spanned the whole page from one side of the browser to the other? Most modern sites have 100% width footers with different backgrounds to the main body. Of course, with different page sizes, you can’t specify the background to the body tag as you would with the normal site background. Furthermore, if you place the footer inside the container/wrapper div, then it won’t span across 100% of browser
The solution is actually very simple.
Rather than having a single div for the footer, create 2 divs for the footer - one as div that will span the full 100% of the screen, the other similar to the container/wrapper of your main content that adjusts the same as your existing container and is centred. To the outer div (that spans all of the screen), apply the following CSS:
left: 0; // Zeros the div so that it goes from one side of the browser to the other
background: *Insert colour of choice*;
To the other div that you want to move at the same rate as your existing container/wrapper, simply add it as another selector along with the existing container - example:
Amazon has got a number of major labels involved including EMI, which is likely going to cause a massive headache for the likes of iTunes, Napster, Yahoo Music and other download services that rely on DRM (Digital Rights Management) to theoretically stop users from sharing music illegally. DRM however is widely criticised because it also stops the user from moving music between his own devices - i.e. from one computer to another, or between different MP3 players and computers.
Is this an end to DRM entirely? We’ll have to wait and see
Firstly, I KNOW I’ll get some stick for this. John Lennon has plenty of fans, particularly for one of his best known works, “Imagine”.
I must admit that I’m a fan of the Beatles - I love their music and I think they were generally good guys. However, I just listened to John Lennon’s Imagine on YouTube and then looked up the lyrics to double check.
I’ve got to say I’m appalled by the song. Not because it’s anti-establishmentist, something that I’m not overly bothered about, but because it’s against religion. I’m not a fan of “religion” really - the word itself conjures up pictures of fanatics, priests performing meaningless ceremonies and profiteering. However, I do believe strongly that people should be allowed to believe what they want as long as they are given options - for example, being informed of other faiths as well as their own or their parents.
“Imagine” is strongly against religion entirely:
“Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky”
…”Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too”
The rest of the song, fine I’ll tolerate, but not this. John Lennon appeared to be such a liberal, yet at the same time believed that religion/faith should be removed. Isn’t that a contradiction? Surely its up to a person to look deep into their heart and make their own decision about faith and God - not have some anarchic atheist mob forcibly making people believe what they wish. Brainwashing with religion is as bad as brainwashing with atheism - by default people are generally agnostics when they are born and then are pushed one way or the other by the society they believe in.
John Lennon called himself liberal and peace-loving yet any act to remove religion or force people to believe atheism would be entirely against peace. To me, John Lennon seems to have been a hypocrite.
I await criticism on this, because I know I’ll receive it…
I site I managed to find recently through Google was the Web 2.0 validator.
For those unacquainted with the term, “web 2.0″ is a term used to describe the new internet, following the recovery after the .com crash of the late 90s and early 2000s. The only problem is that no-one actually knows exactly what “web 2.0″ really means - some people think it’s about design, others about new technology (i.e. AJAX), community-based websites or a mix of them all. It’s simply become a buzzword and there are a number of running jokes in the tech industry about it.
Back on track, the web 2.0 validator tells you whether you’re site is 2.0 or not! In their own words: “we’re the dot in web 2.0″!
This sites results are as follows:
The score for http://www.danlprice.co.uk is 10 out of 66
“Conservatipedia” sounds just like another web 2.0 site jumping on the bandwagon, and with such a name would obviously be targeted towards a right wing audience. The name simply suggests that it’s a right wing site about politics, perhaps discussing the different ideologies on this side of the political spectrum.
However, if you actually go over to this site, you quickly realise this isn’t a place for moderate Conservatives to air their views, but for far right wing Conservatives, perhaps even Fascists, to indoctrinate their viewing audience with absurd ideas about a number of topics. Read the rest of this entry »
(Believe me it’s addictive).
