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New design and a blog post

It's been quite some time since I last blogged, and the website design that I last did, was becoming tired, and it just didn't work right (and never was going to work right for something like the TV Calendar.

So I decided it was time for a new design, something simple, be something appealing, and vibrant. I think I've achieved this, but there is a few things that still need to be fixed (such as TV Calendar - but it will last for now).

I've been making small changes to the back end of late, mainly to keep in line with the Backwards Incompatible Changes, but also to keep some of the page load times down. The next big task I have to do, will be to modify the sight to cache in memory the majority of the pages. Currently it only does this for a few select pages, but to help improve speed, this could easily be done to more!

Anyway, have a look at the new design, and if you have any feedback, greatly apreciated, especially if it doesn't render correctly in your browser of choice (which usually i vet my designs in IE as well as firefox, this time i just made sure it worked in firefox). I do suspect there will be problems with the Transparent PNG in the page title from anything less than IE 7, but then that is IE for you ... Maybe I will make it a GIF, If i get enough complaints.

In other news, my iPhone is going well, event if the battery life in it does suck. I have been looking around at the internals, and it appears it stores most of the information inside it in a SQLite DB, which means that I will easily be able to write some scripts to automatically export that data out into a proper system. Of course when I get some time :-) [If only one could buy blocks of additional time in a day...]

Something else I plan to have a look at is getting a budget HTPC working, with the ability to stream XVID files over a network to it, in order to play it on a widescreen TV. The computer I have to do it, is only a 1.2GHZ, but im hoping that will be enough for basic stuff (my old 1ghz machine could play xvids...) Planning on having the machine run Arch Linux, and XFCE as the desktop manager, and then mplayer for the streaming. Again, when I have time .. :-(

Anyway, that's all for now. Just making sure I get a blog entry in for this month ;)