It had to happen sometime. I knew that as soon as I heard about Atom that someone would inevitably get round to styling the bloody thing, forcing every alpha geek from here to xanadu to do the same (“but better”). It finally happened: Sam Ruby is styling Atom.

Not that it’s any harder than styling RSS. And not that I’m going to do it quite yet. I don’t think there is any demand yet for a stylised Atom feed. I’ll wait until nearer that time.

I’ve always been a sucker for spoon-based games (especially the classic card game, Spoons). So when I read this I had to pass it on. From Yea, but is it art:

Visit their home and then, when leaving, tell them that you’ve hidden a spoon somewhere in the flat and they have to find it. You could mention that there is a five pound note wrapped around it too… The missus’ pal then phoned up sounding rather angry and demanding to know where we’d hidden the spoon. Apparently she’d broken three nails and killed a plant which was uprooted from its pot in the quest to find the missing spoon.

Read the whole thing, very funny and certainly worth trying.

Yes, I finally got round to really updating the tech side of this site for the first time in ages. To aid accessibility, comment permalinks now have title attributes attached (not much, but it helps). For those occassions when standard acronyms are to be over-ridden, I’ve added the ability to switch off auto acronyms. Finally, I added a comment previewing feature (that should keep Jacques happy, at least). Go on, have a play with them.

I also got round to updating my foaf file. Expect that to change a bit more in the near future when I might get round to adding contacts to it.

When I was born: breathing, squirming, crying, making noise, pooing.

When I was 5: starting primary school, Roland Rat, Mask, tab clear, blocks in the hole.

When I was 10: getting along, being the oldest in school, group politics (the effects of Ribena).

When I was 15: girls.

Today, I’m 20: my girlfriend, friends, university, enjoying life.

When I’m 25: …

More random links:

• CSS Tips – A bunch of useful CSS tips and tricks, including some stuff I’d never seen before,
• Beating Copy Protection – How do you beat new fangled copy protection? Hold down shift,
• Podlob – Experiments in flash and DHTML. Fun to look at and play with,
• This Is The Title Of This Story – Bizarre self-referential story. Worth reading just for the confusion,
• Nokia Gameboy – Turn your Nokia phone into a gameboy. Emulation taken too far just far enough,
• Monopoly Probabilities – Various probabilities in Monopoly. The square you’re most likely to land on? Jail, of course,
• Rendering The Segway Obsolete – Funny and true, this will make the Segway a thing of the past,
• ESP Game – Making humans index the images of the web under the subterfuge of scoring points. Genius.
• Every Language War – This is exactly what every language war ever has boiled down to,
• Sliding Doors – The relaunch of A List Apart comes with this fantastic article on CSS tabs,
• XPath Tutorial – Thanks to this tutorial, I finally get XPath. I’ve been playing with it for the past few days. Very nice,
• Define: solitude – How could I not try this? Google has a new tool.

And that’s that for today.