October 2007 – John Braine

30 October 200730 October 2007|by You’ve been Gingerpixel’d!

Had the pleasure of being the recipient of Gingerpixel's fine photography talent at the weekend. Just wish I'd thought to have a late shave! More photos here.

hip-hop, music

29 October 200729 October 2007|by Roxanne Shante

Remember Roxanne Shante? Proper old skool b-girl. 'Have a nice day' was permanently in the 7" pocket of my record bag. Back then she was only a 15 year old single mother from Queens, so a record label offered her...

photos

25 October 200725 October 2007|by Few Rome photos

We were over in Rome last weekend and were surprised to come across a red Trevi Fountain. Only looking it up now, though it was big news in Italy that night. Here's an article in the Telegraph, apparently it was...

books

25 October 200701 March 2010|by Shantaram

Shantaram is one of those books that kept pestering me until I decided to read it. In the space of one week I heard three different people say how amazing it was. And then I started to hear little bits...

blogging, web, web design

24 October 200724 October 2007|by Blog roll

It's about time I got with the program and added a blogroll. So here's most of the blogs I read in my feedreeder. If you don't use a feedreeder, get with the program! Why go to the post office to...

blog action day, blogging, environment

15 October 200715 October 2007|by Turning off colour for Blog action day!

To save the amount of power it takes to colour your monitor, I've turned the colour off in your browser window. Erm, it won't work in a feedreader etc, you need to actually come to www.johnbraine.com and hit refresh. http://blogactionday.org/...

css, sifr, web design

12 October 200712 October 2007|by SIFR V Dropdowns

I've thrown in the towel on trying to get Sifr headings to appear behind my dropdowns. I'd prefer to have plain old text headings and be able to navigate the site thanks very much. Sifr and z-index just don't want...

css, design, web design

12 October 200712 October 2007|by HB Motorcycles

Another Motorbike site I did, hbmotorcycles.com has gone live.

books

12 October 200712 October 2007|by The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

It must be great to be such an established writer that you can just write about your [normal] childhood and know it will sell. But deservedly so. Bryson is such an entertaining writer with a great turn of phrase and...

art, funnee, random

04 October 200704 October 2007|by Perry Bible Fellowship

The Perry Bible Fellowship, BY FAR my favourite comic strip, has finally gone to print. Pre-order one now. I've got two on the way. Christ, that's definitely the earliest I've bought a "that'll-be-a-good-christmas-present-for-someone-better-buy-two!".