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[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by RWood

Here things are fair to middling with a touch of in-between.

get thee behind the curtain before someone sees you ....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

Napoleon Dynamite thinks that Zelda is flippin' sweet.

what a coincidence, that's what zelda thinks of madam b.

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Gosh, that's brilliant!

Annoyingly brilliant . Please tell me you worked on it for hours.

Sheesh. I'm off for a bit, Sparrow makes post 1024 and no-one offers congratulations. Where are the geeks when you need them? (Oh, I was travelling, that was right. Don't get me started on proctologists.)

Taylor, put down that binary joke and back away carefully. It might go critical...

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Hah! No, it's definitely true, I was born in 1970 - I just feel old.

Don't say that. Some of us were born before 1970....

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Shhh! She's back. Look busy, or at least innocent.

Cheers,
Marc ([just whistling a tune, dawdling along, tasting the roses...completely innocent])

Is that how you look innocent? Does it work? Bugger! Can't whistle a tune any more that I can carry one (in Zelda's bucket or otherwise).

Given all these avatars, I'm going to have to give serious consideration to telling you about the Collection, MoM and the innoculative powers of MySpace....

[Mindy]

Still soggy in Edinburgh

/dawdles off back to Market Abuse Consultation

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by Mindy

Still soggy in Edinburgh

/dawdles off back to Market Abuse Consultation

Tell me about it. Looking at the rain at the moment -- from house as too exhausted from keeping up with the retirees -- I'm on holiday for heaven's sake.

Appropriate art installations in Charlotte Square -- will try and provide photos in a day or two for those of you not in the first UNESCO City of Literature...

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Sheesh. I'm off for a bit, Sparrow makes post 1024 and no-one offers congratulations. Where are the geeks when you need them? (Oh, I was travelling, that was right. Don't get me started on proctologists.)

Taylor, put down that binary joke and back away carefully. It might go critical...

well that'll teach you to go off for days and leave us to our own devices : the whole place just goes to hell, doesn't it ? good thing you're back now !

oh, and : nicely done, sparrow !!!

Is that how you look innocent? Does it work? Bugger! Can't whistle a tune any more that I can carry one (in Zelda's bucket or otherwise).

not much, it doesn't. i mean just look at that lot : would *you* fall for their act ? i didn't think so. so no regrets, hey ?

Given all these avatars, I'm going to have to give serious consideration to telling you about the Collection, MoM and the innoculative powers of MySpace....

i quite like the avatar you're wearing today.

but : myspace ??? vade retro !!! did you know there's a circle of hell reserved just for webdesigners who have been too too evil ? it's called myspace.

[zelda_pinwheel]

hey, lazyscot ! if you bump into ian rankin at this festival, say "excuse me".

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Tell me about it. Looking at the rain at the moment -- from house as too exhausted from keeping up with the retirees -- I'm on holiday for heaven's sake.

Appropriate art installations in Charlotte Square -- will try and provide photos in a day or two for those of you not in the first UNESCO City of Literature...

just watch out for the b****** seagulls.....

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

but : myspace ??? vade retro !!! did you know there's a circle of hell reserved just for webdesigners who have been too too evil ? it's called myspace.

You just don't understand what an amazing thing MySpace is. The genius behind, it the elegance of the idea, the fact that it may be the only thing that preserves humanity. The Great Old Ones are furious that it was invented.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

You just don't understand what an amazing thing MySpace is. The genius behind, it the elegance of the idea, the fact that it may be the only thing that preserves humanity.

...the terrifyingly non-compliant, chaotic, proprietary code ; the horrifying proliferation of profiles clearly "designed" by color-blind (or possibly completely blind) monkeys on crack ; the way the content is *always* too wide for the window and won't reflow, but why worry, since it's illegible anyway on that background ; the music which assaults your ears with no warning and which may or may not be prohibited by the geneva convention (depending on whose profile you stumble onto...)... i could go on. webdesigner hell, i tell you.

The Great Old Ones are furious that it was invented.

how i sympathise.

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

...the terrifyingly non-compliant, chaotic, proprietary code ; the horrifying proliferation of profiles clearly "designed" by color-blind (or possibly completely blind) monkeys on crack ; the way the content is *always* too wide for the window and won't reflow, but why worry, since it's illegible anyway on that background ; the music which assaults your ears with no warning and which may or may not be prohibited by the geneva convention (depending on whose profile you stumble onto...)... i could go on. webdesigner hell, i tell you.

how i sympathise.

Yeah, I had one of those designing my page here on MR. Boy, those were the days...

[RWood]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

...the terrifyingly non-compliant, chaotic, proprietary code ; the horrifying proliferation of profiles clearly "designed" by color-blind (or possibly completely blind) monkeys on crack ; the way the content is *always* too wide for the window and won't reflow, but why worry, since it's illegible anyway on that background ; the music which assaults your ears with no warning and which may or may not be prohibited by the geneva convention (depending on whose profile you stumble onto...)... i could go on. webdesigner hell, i tell you.

What is amazing is that so many "serious" businesses have adopted that style of web page for their own use and wonder why other companies do not flock to engage them.

[Madam Broshkina]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

...the terrifyingly non-compliant, chaotic, proprietary code ; the horrifying proliferation of profiles clearly "designed" by color-blind (or possibly completely blind) monkeys on crack ; the way the content is *always* too wide for the window and won't reflow, but why worry, since it's illegible anyway on that background ; the music which assaults your ears with no warning and which may or may not be prohibited by the geneva convention (depending on whose profile you stumble onto...)... i could go on. webdesigner hell, i tell you.

how i sympathise.

Sure some Myspace pages are bad. But then again you stumble upon something like this:

http://www.myspace.com/jimmbay1

[badgoodDeb]

Ohkayyyyy .... I've not looked at any myspace pages before. Are you saying this one is good, or bad? It looked dreadful with the yellow type .... until the background finally loaded and made the font readable.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

You just don't understand what an amazing thing MySpace is. The genius behind, it the elegance of the idea, the fact that it may be the only thing that preserves humanity. The Great Old Ones are furious that it was invented.

I thought they invented it. Maybe that's why they're angry - it was meant to be a viral soul-eater, and humankind took to it in joy like ducks to chocolate. Success...but not the kind of success the Great Old Ones were hoping for.

I don't click on any MySpace link, ever, because I have yet to come across a single MySpace webpage (including those designed by "professionals" for major bands, for instance), that didn't make me want to reach through the screen to tear out the eyes and corkscrew the ears of those responsible. Well, I don't unless someone like Madame Broshkina links to one...in which case I should know better, but do anyway, and then regret it.

Cheers,
Marc