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Reading Feeds

Jasper — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:12:00 +0000

I’ve not checked this for ages. If you’re one of these people, thanks much for subscribing – it fills me with an unjustified amount of self-worth. I hope I occasionally do stuff that makes it worth keeping me in your reader.

Motivational Crap

Jasper — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:37:00 +0000

These stupid things normally annoy me, but they’re a pretty good vehicle for this. I’ve been thinking about this since I hit a potential stumbling block on a project I was recently working on. It’s basically what it says. Make a choice about how you’re going to do something then just do it. No messing. It served me well, hopefully this bit of obvious common sense will help.

On protecting my twitter updates

Jasper — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:39:48 +0000

The observant will note that my twitter updates are now protected. I don’t like the idea of people I didn’t authorise reading those updates – they’re unedited and unsuitable in most cases. If you’re a person and you want to read, I’d be elated, but I’d rather say yes than wish I could say no.

Thanks to the [very] few for understanding.

#jsprrecs

Jasper — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:01:03 +0000

I often find myself tweeting song lyrics or lines from movies or, well, lines from anything really. This normally receives one of two responses: “man I love that movie/song” or “what are you talking about?!”. #jsprrecs is here so that I can recommend stuff to people without being too cryptic (though they might involve some googling!)

Enjoy!

I love CSS

Jasper — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:51:54 +0000

I finally got the strength to give IE6 even less attention than I usually do, off the back of a post from Roger Johansson. Because of this, I also feel confident that it’s acceptable to use techniques available to more advanced browsers. The idea that all websites should look the same in all browsers is unrealistic and inappropriate, so this has opened up a whole new world of CSS that I can now freely use, and I’ve found it really fun. For example, in older browsers, all my category and archive links in my “sidebar” will be white, but new-browser-users will be rewarded with easier differentiation between link colours with the following gem:

#menu > li li:nth-child(2n) a { color:#656565; }

And to tidy up the last paragraph margins and get rid of the unattractive superfluous margin, I can now use this and be safe in the knowledge that people who care about this sort of thing will be able to see/appreciate it:

#menu div.content p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }

I don’t know how some people can dislike CSS. It’s such an awesome way of working.

Enthusiasm fuelling this post brought to you by grape juice and vodka.

goin’ through changes

Jasper — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:42:12 +0000

I’ve made some changes. If you see anything that looks wrong (and you don’t use IE6), let me know.